Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers to join Mayor of London's design panel

Four of the UK's most respected names in architecture, planning and property development are to advise the Mayor of London Boris Johnson on delivering design excellence across the capital. Architects Richard Rogers (pictured)...

It's all about taste: Redesigning the River Café

Stuart Forbes was Richard Rogers's project architect for the Millennium Dome, and he was a senior designer on Heathrow's Interminable Five building. That means he's operated at the very top of his profession. What, then, is he...

Classical review: Angry mob puts the Tsar in his place

Boris Godunov Coliseum, London WC2, until 1 Dec Berezovsky Trio IndigO2, London SE10Where would Russian opera be without Alexander Pushkin? The author of Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades, from which Tchaikovsky fashioned...

Pound sinks to record low against the euro

In July, £1 would still buy $2; lower than its recent record of $2.11 set last November, but healthy enough for shopping trips to New York to make sense. Yesterday, sterling was trading at about $1.48, a six-year low. Macy's...

Centre Pompidou opens an Installation by Mexican Damian Ortega

PARIS.- Born in Mexico City in 1967, Damián Ortega is the first Latin American artist to show in Espace 315. With Abraham Cruzvillegas and Gabriel Kuri, he is one of the leading members of the rising artistic generation in...

Report: Rogers Picked To Design Vornado Tower Atop Port Authority

The London-based Architect’s Journal reports that British starchitect Lord Richard Rogers has won a contest to design the planned tower on top of the Port Authority Bus Terminal. The tower, which Steve Roth’s Vornado would...

River Café by Stuart Forbes and Richard Rogers

Stuart Forbes Associates and Richard Rogers have redesigned the famous River Café in London, UK. The redesign unites kitchen and dining room and features a large wood-fired oven. The restaurant, owned by Ruth Rogers and Rose...

RACY RUBBISH vs. REAL-TIME ROMANCE

Anita Chandra, a Rand Corporation behavioral scientist, just released a new study that the media is touting as "groundbreaking research." Apparently, Chandra has discovered something many of us have known for years, but because...

Table talk: Sam Bompas and Harry Parr, architectural foodsmiths and jellymongers

Bompas and Parr: 'Everyone should eat more and just enjoy themselves'. Illustrations: Emma Rios Name your three desert island must-have ingredients Harry Parr: Leaf gelatine, so that we could turn anything on the island into...

Arnaz, Bergen, Graff, Panaro, Wopat, et al. Set for 92nd St. Y's Lyrics &...

Preliminary casting has been announced for The 92nd Street Y's 2009 season of Lyrics & Lyricists, the first under the stewardship of artistic director Deborah Grace Winer. The series begins January 10-12 with Martin Charnin as...

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