Creatives including Peter Barber, Charles Holland and Julia Barfield are among those to have paid their respects to Pritzer Prize-winning architect Richard Rogers, who passed away this weekend at the age of 88.
British-Italian architect Rogers, one of the world's leading architects, is best known for his iconic high-tech architecture including the Centre Pompidou and Lloyd's building.
His death in London on Saturday evening was confirmed to the New York Times by his son Roo Rogers and on the website of his studio, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP).
"Rogers was the most fantastic bloke"
Tributes to Rogers flooded social media over the weekend, led by fellow Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Norman Foster who said the architect was his "oldest and closest friend". "Richard Rogers was a great pioneering architect of the modern age, socially committed and an influential protagonist for the best of city life ? such a legacy," Foster said.
Among the others mourning his loss were British architects Barber and Barfield, who are both former employees of RSHP, then Richard Rogers Partnership (RRP).
Above: Norman Foster (left) with Richard Rogers (middle). Image courtesy of Foster + Partners
"Richard Rogers was the most fantastic bloke?.he really was?.so charming and charismatic. He was very very kind to me," Barber wrote on Twitter.
Barfield, the co-founder of Marks Barfield Architects, said finding out the news was "such a sad day&q...