British architect Richard Rogers dies at age 88

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FILE - British designer Richard Rogers attends an lawsuit with metropolis authorities successful Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 17, 2014. Richard Rogers, the lauded British designer who was 1 of the forces down the Pompidou Center successful Paris and aboriginal designed London's Millennium Dome has died. He was 88. Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, the institution helium founded, confirmed his decease successful a connection Sunday Dec. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

LONDON – Richard Rogers, the lauded British designer who was 1 of the forces down the Pompidou Center successful Paris and aboriginal designed London's Millennium Dome has died. He was 88.

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, the institution helium founded, confirmed his decease successful a connection Sunday.

“A antheral of immense thrust and charisma, helium was arsenic a antheral of civility and integrity, dedicated to the creation and subject of architecture, of urbanism, the beingness of the city, of governmental committedness and affirmative societal change,” the concern said.

Rogers won architecture's apical award, the Pritzker Prize, successful 2007, and was a subordinate of Britain's House of Lords. As good arsenic the iconic Pompidou Center, which helium designed with Renzo Piano, his enactment included the Lloyd's of London gathering and Terminal 4 astatine Barajas International Airport successful Madrid.

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