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THE man who designed the Millennium Dome has died at the age of 88.
Lord Richard Rogers, who also designed the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Lloyd’s of London building, is said to have “quietly passed away” on Saturday evening.
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American architecture critic Paul Goldberger called the news “heartbreaking” and added on Twitter that it was “another big loss for architecture in 2021.”
He wrote: “A lovely man and a wonderful talent. RIP”.
Lord Rogers was born in 1933 to an Anglo-Italian family in Florence, Italy and moved to England at a young age, where he later studied at the Architectural Association School of Architure in London before taking his Masters at Yale.
His designs, which include the Senedd building in Cardiff and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, have been awarded the Royal Gold Medal and the Pritzker Prize.
At the 2017 Pritzker award, the jury praised him for “revolutionizing museums, transforming once elitist monuments into popular places for social and cultural exchange that are woven into the heart of the city”.
In 2014 he received the Freedom of the City of London at the Guildhall Art Gallery in recognition of his contribution to architecture and urbanism.
Channel 4 News host Krishnan Guru-Murthy earlier Sunday paid tribute to Lord Rogers, whose company had designed the station’s 124 Horseferry Road headquarters, as “someone whose wonderful buildings are testament to an amazing, inventive, charismatic man.”
The New York Times reported that Lord Rogers is survived by his wife, Lady Ruth, sons Ab, Ben, Roo and Zad, his brother Peter, and 13 grandchildren.
Matthew Freud of Freud Communications told the PA news agency that Lord Rogers “died quietly” on Saturday.
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