Lauded modern British architect Richard Rogers dies at 88

By DANICA KIRKA
Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — Richard Rogers, the lauded British architect who was one of the forces behind the Pompidou Center in Paris and later designed London’s Millennium Dome, has died. He was 88. Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, the company he founded, confirmed his death Sunday. It described him as “a man of immense drive and charisma.” Rogers won architecture’s top award, the Pritzker Prize, in 2007, and was a member of Britain’s House of Lords. As well as the iconic Pompidou Center, which he designed with Renzo Piano, his work included the Lloyd’s of London building and Terminal 4 at Madrid’s international airport. To fight climate change, Rogers promoted a vision of densely populated cities developed around technology and mass transit.