Richard Rogers signs off groundbreaking career with gravity-defying Château La Coste pavilion
Richard Rogers signs off groundbreaking career with gravity-defying Château La Coste pavilion
Thrusting from the landscape in its cantilevered steel frame, Richard Rogers’ recently completed Drawing Gallery at Château La Coste in Provence will show temporary exhibitions
Last September, when Richard Rogers stepped down from the architectural practice that he founded more than 40 years ago, he still had one personal project underway. Now, the last building of Rogers’ long and distinguished career, the new Drawing Gallery at Château La Coste in Provence, is complete. It’s tiny, but spectacular. Vivid orange and hovering, apparently weightless, the building cantilevers out of a thickly wooded ridge too steep for planting the vines that grow in neat rows on either side.
Richard Rogers art gallery floats over a forest in France
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The Richard Rogers Drawing Gallery is raised at a maximum height of 18 m (60 ft) above the forest floor
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The Richard Rogers Drawing Gallery features 5 x 4 m (16.4 x 13 ft) operable glazing that frames the view and offers access to a small terrace area
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The Richard Rogers Drawing Gallery is raised at a maximum height of 18 m (60 ft) above the forest floor
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The Richard Rogers Drawing Gallery is supported in place by steel cables to help protect it from local seismic activity