K. Powell

This second volume of the complete works of Richard Rogers examines the work of the Richard Rogers Partnership from 1987 to 1992, picking up from the highly acclaimed Volume 1, published in 1999. Following the completion of the Lloyd’s Building came expansion for the firm, a new office in Tokyo, and a large number of competitions and schemes, much of which remains unbuilt. Over fifty projects are featured in the book, including competition schemes for Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport and the Tokyo International Forum and buildings such as Channel 4 headquarters, the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights, 88 Wood Street and the Bordeaux Law Courts. In a series of essays throughout the book, Ken Powell discusses ‘Continuity and Expansion’...

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

Well known as an exponent of good architecture in his own work, Richard Rogers is equally famous for promoting architectural quality and campaigning for the revival of the modern city. This first volume, covering the period 1961–88, features all of Rogers’s early work with Norman Foster and Team 4, his partnerships with Su Rogers and Renzo Piano, through to the ethos and philosophy of his present practice, the Richard Rogers Partnership. The author’s interviews with key figures build up a portrait of the teamwork involved in producing the buildings of Rogers’s expansive career. Each project, from Creek Vean in Cornwall (1966), through the Rogers and Piano collaboration at the Pompidou Centre in Paris (1971–7), to Lloyd’s of...

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

These are three highly feted and ground-breaking Modern British buildings. The extremely influential Leicester University Engineering Department Building, with its powerful contradictory geometry, established the worldwide reputation of James Stirling. The glass facade of Foster’s building for Willis Faber Dumas – a mirror by day and transparent by night – caused a sensation in 1974 and still commands attention. The ‘mechanical cathedral’ of Lloyd’s in the heart of the City of London, was a radical development in the 1980s and epitomizes Rogers’s concern with flexibility and technical imagery. By looking at the three key buildings in one volume the reader can chart the development of Modern British architecture and examine...

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

This book features Grimshaw’s work from the late 1980s onwards, which has included some of Europe’s most prestigious commissions; in Berlin he is planning a new Stock Exchange, while in London he has built on the success of his printing plant for the Financial Times with his stunning new international railway terminal at Waterloo, which has been completed to wide acclaim.

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

Antoni Gaudi’s Expiatory Church of the Sagrada Familia, the Grand Central Terminal by Whitney Warren and Charles Wetmore and the Sydney Opera House by Jorn Utzon are all instantly recognizable buildings and symbols of national and metropolitan pride. They are, however, much more than just civic monuments – they have set new standards, breaking with all precedent in their unique three-dimensional forms. Each building is an enduring source of inspiration for students and fellow architects, and bears witness to the free-ranging imagination and genius of its architect. Together, they provide valuable insights into the role of civic architecture.

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: апрель 2002