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Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

formerly known as Richard Rogers Partnership

Architectural Firm
Former Senior Founding Partner   5 Total, Show more

Richard Rogers 

Partner

Tracy Meller 

Senior Partner

Graham Stirk 

Ivan Harbour 

Former Founding Partner

Mike Davies 

Date

Founded, 1977

Awards
Highlights

Stirling Prize, 2006

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A British architectural firm, founded in 1977 and originally known as the Richard Rogers Partnership. The previous head office at Thames Wharf Studios, Hammersmith The practice is strongly focused on sustainability, urban regeneration and social awareness, themes that have long been a feature of Rogers' work. Celebration of public space and the encouragement of public activities is also a recurring theme.

Richard Rogers explained the reason for the change of the practice name from the Richard Rogers Partnership to Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in 2007 was because "We wanted to avoid the situation where the name of the practice is someone who died 100 years ago. Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change – but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years."

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The practice’s choice of a completely open plan office reflects the democratic beliefs. There are no individual offices; partners sit with their architectural teams, and every Monday a weekly meeting open to all employees is held to discuss competitions, on-going projects and more. Staff wellbeing is important, with a conscious focus on providing good working conditions for staff and ensuring a family-friendly environment. This collegiate approach extends to the wider world with a constitution that consciously brings a moral dimension to the work. This includes a staff profit-sharing scheme and significant contributions to charity, with staff members nominating the charities of their choice.

The practice’s choice of a completely open plan office reflects the democratic beliefs. There are no individual offices; partners sit with their architectural teams, and every Monday a weekly meeting open to all employees is held to discuss competitions, on-going projects and more. Staff wellbeing is important, with a conscious focus on providing good working conditions for staff and ensuring a family-friendly environment. This collegiate approach extends to the wider world with a constitution that consciously brings a moral dimension to the work. This includes a staff profit-sharing scheme and significant contributions to charity, with staff members nominating the charities of their choice.

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PROJECTS

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The building was envisaged as a cross between ‘an information-oriented computerised Times Square and the British Museum’, a democratic place for all people and the centrepiece of a regenerated quarter of the city.
1

1977 - Centre Pompidou Paris, IDF
Cultural

"The ultimate inspiration for the Dome was a great sky, a cosmos under which all events take place – the radial lines and circles of the high-tensile roof structure recall the celestial reference grid of astronomical maps throughout the ages." - Mike Davies, Project Partner for the Millennium Dome
2

1999 - Millenium Dome ENG
Recreation

The landscaping integrate the Centre into the larger hospital site: mature plane trees indicate a route from the hospital to a public courtyard surrounded by white flowered magnolia trees.
3

2009 - Maggie's West London Centre ENG
Healthcare

The World Trade Center complex, with master planning by Daniel Libeskind
4

2018 - 3 World Trade Center New York City, NY
Workplace

The layout of the arrivals hall creates clear and separate routes to the various modes of ground transportation, giving equal weight to public and private transport.
5

2005 - Terminal 4 at Barajas Airport Madrid
Airport

It has emerged as one of the greatest modern British buildings, one which balances technical efficiency with architectural expressiveness to produce an effect which might be called highly romantic and judged a very positive addition to the London skyline.
6

1978 - Lloyd's of London ENG
Workplace

Drawing

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1977 - Concept sketch

1978 - The Room at Lloyd's of London

1978 - Concept sketch

1999 - The fabric skin was connected to tension cables by a team of abseiling construction workers and, at the height of the project, shortly before completion, there were over 1,500 people on site.