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Richard Rogers dies aged 88

By 2021-12-19T09:10:00

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Architect and peer was an influential figure in urban thinking for half a century

Richard Rogers has died, his practice announced today.

He was 88 and had been ill for some time. Just over a year ago he retired from Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners, the practice he founded more than 40 years ago and which went on to win two Stirling Prizes and influence generations of architects.

Rogers, who made his name with the competition-winning Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Lloyds Building in the City of London, was just as celebrated for his humanity and the egalitarian way he ran his practice.

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