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Richard Rogersweds the best of high-tech
design with the outer limits of the architect’s imagination,
creating soaring, sustainable spaces that enrich everyday
urban life.
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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.
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Richard Rogers produced a new vision of the city
dubbed London As It Could Be.
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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.
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The show demonstrated his ability to explore a
different kind of sustainability, one
intimately connected to the experiential fabric of
the city.
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This house that the architect built for his parents in 1969 is a transparent, flexible
tube, which can be extended and adapted.
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Instead of carved ornament and stone
statuary, we see glass and steel details
almost constantly on the move.
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Bourdeaux Law Courts1998Cedar clad “pods” hold the actual courtrooms.
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The Bordeaux Law Courts, 1998, have seven cedar clad pods that act as the courtrooms.
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Madrid’s Barajas Airport, 2005, includes a massive sequence of color coded columns, each vaulting to a bamboo ceiling from massive plinths.
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Bodegas Protos WinerySpain 2008Contains over a mile of underground tunnels for aging wine.
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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.