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That put some people off the way i know the lloyd s building in london does, although i ve always loved it, but the madrid air terminal which has this magnificent set of columns that gradually change colour, following the spectrum, going from red to orange to yellow all the way to green and blue and indigo and so forth. it s absolutely breathtaking the way that works and, you know, that s i think in some ways maybe my very favourite rogers building. but i like the millennium dome. i love the kind of, just determination of the lloyd s of london building in which he made it machinelike but showed that machines could also be kind of wild and crazy, like a tingly sculpture or something. and in every case it was always part of a larger city, it was notjust this isolated self referential object. i m interested in how you think his background influenced his work. ....
And yet at the same time it was entertaining and you felt an emotional connection to it. his love of colour which went all the way through his work was another part of that i think. i think his legacy is that, as well as trying to show that modern buildings could still create a civilised city. that they did not have to be a vast landscape of horrible, brutal concrete. indeed and he really stripped them out and allowed you in and allowed you to see how things worked. what were some of the buildings that stood out to you personally? well, i love the madrid airport, barajas, that exquisite terminal is magnificent and very, very easy to understand that, it s not the kind of building that put some people off the way i know the lloyd s building in london does, although i ve always loved it, but the madrid air terminal which has this magnificent set of columns that gradually change colour following the spectrum, going from red to orange to yellow all the way ....