High-tech architecture pioneer Richard Rogers, who designed the Centre Pompidou and Lloyd's building, has passed away aged 88.
British-Italian architect Rogers, one of the world's best-known architects, died at his home in London on Saturday evening. His death was confirmed to the New York Times by his son Roo Rogers and in a statement on the website of studio Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, of which Rogers was a founding partner.
Over his career, he was awarded all of architecture's top honours. He was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize ? architecture's highest accolade ? in 2007, the Royal Gold Medal in 1985, the American Institute of Architect's Gold Medal in 2019 and the Praemium Imperiale for Architecture in 2000. Top: Richard Rogers has passed away. Above: the Centre Pompidou is one of his best-known buildings. Photo courtesy of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
His studio won the Stirling Prize ? the UK's top honour for a building ? twice, first for Madrid's Barajas Airport in 2006 and later for the Maggie's Centre in London in 2009.
Born in Florence, Rogers returned to the UK for school before attending the Architectural Association and then moving to the US to study at Yale, where he met Norman Foster.

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