Richard Rogers' top 10 architecture projects
Following the news that high-tech architecture pioneer Richard Rogers has passed away aged 88, here are 10 of his most influential projects including the Centre Pompidou and the Millennium Dome.
Reliance Controls, Swindon, UK (1967)
Designed in partnership with Norman Foster, Su Brumwell and Wendy Cheesman while Rogers was part of Team 4, the Reliance Controls factory in Swindon was the first high-tech industrial building.
The building, which contained both the factory and offices for precision electronic instruments company Reliance Controls, has its structure clearly visible ? something that would become a hallmark of high-tech architecture.
Wimbledon house, London, UK (1969)
Following Team 4, Rogers and Brumwell established an architecture studio and one of its first projects was a home for Rogers' parents at 22 Parkside in Wimbledon. According to Rogers, the home was designed to demonstrate how pre-fabrication would enable homes to be built quickly and affordably.
"This was going to be a standardised system to solve the whole of the British housing problem," he told Dezeen in an interview. "It didn't! But it did certainly lead to most of the work which I still do some 50 years later and more."
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (1977)
Perhaps Rogers' most famous building and a clear expression of his inside-out architecture, Centre Pompidou in Paris drew global attention to both its architects and the high-tech movement.
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