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With the pioneering design of the pompidou centre in paris, david sillito looks back at his life. it s hard to exaggerate what a shock this building was. the pompidou centre s facade with its confusion of pipes, ducts and external corridors was revolutionary the work of renzo piano and a young british architect called richard rogers. the building itself is inside out. in other words, what you usually see inside, which are those long, dank, dark corridors which you have in big institutional buildings and it is an institution, theoretically, though i dislike the word, it s an institution there s long, dark corridors on the outside. they re actually the fun. the inside out design made the interior airy and open and equally important was the public space outside. this was 60s egalitarianism, inspired by the piazzas of his home town, florence in italy. his parents had arrived in britain in the 30s. the young richard rogers struggled at school, he was dyslexic, but he got into art co ....
The pompidou centre s facade with its confusion of pipes, ducts and external corridors was revolutionary the work of renzo piano and a young british architect called richard rogers. the building itself is inside out. in other words, what you usually see inside, which are those long, dank, dark corridors which you have in big institutional buildings and it is an institution, theoretically, though i dislike the word, it s an institution there s long, dark corridors on the outside. they re actually the fun. the inside out design made the interior airy and open and equally important was the public space outside. this was 60s egalitarianism, inspired by the piazzas of his home town, florence in italy. his parents had arrived in britain in the 30s. the young richard rogers struggled at school, he was dyslexic, but he got into art college and then trained as an architect, where he met another future superstar of british architecture, norman foster. their high tech style, though, took ....
Of the pompidou centre in paris, david sillito looks back at his life. it s hard to exaggerate what a shock this building was. the pompidou centre s facade with its confusion of pipes, ducts and external corridors was revolutionary the work of renzo piano and a young british architect called richard rogers. the building itself is inside out. in other words, what you usually see inside, which are those long, dank, dark corridors which you have in big institutional buildings and it is an institution, theoretically, though i dislike the word, it s an institution there s long, dark corridors on the outside. they re actually the fun. the inside out design made the interior airy and open and equally important was the public space outside. this was 60s egalitarianism, inspired by the piazzas of his home town, florence in italy. his parents had arrived in britain in the 30s. the young richard rogers struggled at school, he was dyslexic, but he got into art college and then trained as a ....
Richard rogers, who designed some of the most striking buildings of the past half century, has died at the age of 88. he came to international prominence in the 1970s, with the pioneering design of the pompidou centre in paris as our correspondent david sillito reports. it s hard to exaggerate what a shock this building was. the pompidou centre s facade, with its confusion of pipes, ducts and external corridors was revolutionary the work of renzo piano and a young british architect called richard rogers. the building itself is inside out. in other words, what you usually see inside, which are those long, dank, dark corridors which you have in big institutional buildings and it is an institution, theoretically, though i dislike the word, it s an institution those long, dark corridors are on the outside. they re actually the fun. the inside out design made the interior airy and open and equally important was the public space outside. this was 60s egalitarianism, inspired by the pi ....
Inspired by the piazzas of his home town, florence in italy. his parents had arrived in britain in the 305. the young richard rogers struggled at school. he was dyslexic, but he got into art college and then trained as an architect where he met another future superstar of british architecture, norman foster. their high tech style, though, took a while to win favour. his inside out lloyd s building in london was not to everyone s taste. it s what his royal highness, the prince of wales, described as a carbuncle on the face of whatever you like to call it. but his moment had come. madrid airport, with its huge bamboo roof, won the stirling prize. the millennium dome was signature rogers again, innovative technology to create a huge, flexible space. how you get from one place to the other. but not all his plans were popular. proposed transformation of london s southbank was fought off by residents, but it didn t stop politicians ....