Richard Rogers weds the best of high-tech design with the outer limits of the architect’s imagination, creating soaring, sustainable spaces that enrich everyday urban life.

Richard Rogers produced a new vision of the city dubbed London As It Could Be.

A pedestrian super-bridge would span the river, with new walking routes opened up between Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. This would create a city built to serve not the spatial needs of the automobile industry but the cultural needs of its living residents.

The show demonstrated his ability to explore a different kind of sustainability, one intimately connected to the experiential fabric of the city.

This house that the architect built for his parents in 1969 is a transparent, flexible tube, which can be extended and adapted.

Pompidou Center Paris 1977

Instead of carved ornament and stone statuary, we see glass and steel details almost constantly on the move.

Channel 4 Westminster HQ 1994 Lloyds of London

Bourdeaux Law Courts 1998 Cedar clad “pods” hold the actual courtrooms.

The Bordeaux Law Courts, 1998, have seven cedar clad pods that act as the courtrooms.

Madrid’s Barajas Airport, 2005, includes a massive sequence of color coded columns, each vaulting to a bamboo ceiling from massive plinths.

Bodegas Protos Winery Spain 2008 Contains over a mile of underground tunnels for aging wine.

In a competition called Design for Manufacture the Oxley houses are unusual in appearance… The feature “clever ways of using wood,” including prefabricated panels made from sustainably harvested European softwoods and a paper-based internal insulation. The components were delivered flat-pack, greatly reducing construction waste, with the added benefit that each home’s “external envelope” was ready in a mere two days.