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House Construction
Buildings which are full of light, which are light in weight, which are flexible, which have low energy, which are what we call legible, you can read how the building is put together. That’s how we get rhythm and poetry out of it.
Richard Rogers
Remodeling Interior Design
Zaha Hadid Architects won the competition in February 2005. With its spectacular, sinuous S-shaped roof inspired by the flow of water, and certainly make it as a London landmark, made Lord Rogers, of the Richard Rogers Partnership, who co-chaired the Panel that vote the design said, “this building has an exceptional sculptural quality that will make it a wonderful building to visit, attracting people to East London. It sets the standard for architectural quality in this key regeneration area.”“The architectural concept of the London Aquatics Centre is inspired by the fluid geometry of water in motion, creating spaces and a surrounding environment in sympathy with the river landscape,” Zaha says as her reaction to lighten and brighten up what has been a very dark and dreary area of London.
Photo: © architectook
Remodeling Interior Design
“The completed buildings are striking expressions of the rise of an eco-architecture on a grand urban scale.”Kenneth Powell
Richard Rogers Partnership
Daimler Chrysler
Potsdamer Platz
Berlin, Germany
Photo: © Katsuhisa Kida
Remodeling Interior Design
"The urgency of climate change makes the rebirth of our cities crucial to the planet, and its people.
After a century in which cities were treated as problems - dirty, crowded, dangerous - the 1997 general election marked a turning point with a new government that saw cities as the only sustainable solution to the growing demand for housing.
There has been a measurable cultural shift... read more"
Richard Rogers
The Guardian
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