Gone Architect Richard Rogers: From Center Pompidou to Butterfly Palace, 6 Iconic Designs by Hand

Rogers was 88 years old and was one of the most successful – and sometimes controversial – architects of the past decades. He came from an Anglo-Italian family from Florence and studied architecture at London and Yale University in America. Together with his colleague Renzo Piano, he established an architecture and design office in the early 1970s.

He made a breakthrough in the 1970s when his designs for two absolutely stunning buildings were approved. He raised most of the dirt for him Striking at the Center Pompidou Cultural Center in Paris. The then very classical French capital suddenly got a huge structure with tubes on the outside through which people could enter the building. It wasn’t to everyone’s taste to say the least. Many Parisians called for the “dirty” to be immediately demolished to the ground, but this was also the case with the construction of the Eiffel Tower at the end of the 19th century. (Read more below the picture).

In the late 1970s, Rogers again played the “tube hull” from the outside, this time for the United States Headquarters Lloyd’s of London in the British capital. This building has since become a “milestone” in the City of London, although more eye-catching constructions have appeared there in recent years.

Also in London is Millennium DooI From a drawing of Rogers: a large dome along the Thames designed specifically for the celebration of the year 2000. This turned out to be less successful, because for a long time London could not do anything with this. Today it is an event hall under the name O2 Arena.

The cylindrical preferences of Richard Rogers are also reflected in another absolutely stunning building: the new headquarters of European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

We can not ignore WTC-3 Tower In the renovated World Trade Center in New York. This is a skyscraper with more classic angles, one of the newer towers on the site where the old World Trade Center was destroyed in 2001.

Therefore, Richard Rogers became famous to us as a designer Butterfly Palace, the new court in Antwerp. The modern and stunning building in the Bolivarplaats was opened in 2006 by then-King Albert. It ended up costing 280 million euros, which is 4 times more than originally estimated. Rogers also designed buildings for airports including Heathrow in London and Barajas near Madrid, Spain.