Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners LLP (RSHP) is a British architectural firm, founded in 1977 and originally known as the Richard Rogers Partnership. Its main offices are located in the Leadenhall Building, London. Previously they were at the Thames Wharf Studios. In its various incarnations it is known for many important buildings including Lloyd's building and the Millennium Dome in London and the National Assembly for Wales building in Cardiff.

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Leadenhall Building, designed by RSH+P and now its head office. In the foreground, the Lloyd's building also designed by RSH+P.
Practice information
Key architects	Richard Rogers, Graham Stirk, Ivan Harbour
Founded	1977 (1977) as the Richard Rogers Partnership
Location	Level 14, 122 Leadenhall Street, London.[1]
Significant works and honors
Buildings	Maggie's Centre, London One Hyde Park, London Heathrow Terminal 5, London Central Park Station, Taiwan
Projects	Grand Paris
Awards	Manser Medal (2008) Stirling Prize (2006 & 2009)

Description

The firm's principal offices are located at Leadenhall Building in London. It also maintains offices in Shanghai and Sydney. As of March 2016 the firm has thirteen partners, including Richard Rogers, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour.[2] The practice is run with a profit-share scheme and a limit on the directors' salaries in comparison with those of the lowest paid in the office.[3]

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.[4]

It is owned by a charitable trust, ensuring that no individual owns any share in its value and preventing private trading and inheritance of shares. The practice divides its profits between all of the staff and their chosen charities, according to publicly declared principles.[5]

History

Soon after the Pompidou Centre in Paris was opened in 1977, Richard Rogers formed the Richard Rogers Partnership and started work on the Lloyd's building in London. 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."[3]

In November 2015 Rogers Stirk Harbour created five new partners including Tracy Meller who became their first woman partner. Founding partner Mike Davies stepped down.[6]

Awards

In 2006 the practice was awarded the Stirling Prize for their Madrid-Barajas Airport, Terminal 4.[3]

In 2008, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners was awarded the Manser Medal for Houses and Housing, given for the best one-off house (Oxley Woods) designed by an architect in the UK.[7]

In 2009 it was awarded the Stirling Prize for Maggie's Centre in London.[8] It won the RIBA National Award 2015 for NEO Bankside luxury apartments in London and was subsequently shortlisted for the Stirling Prize for the second time.[9]

Notable projects

This list contains projects from the beginning of the partnership in 1977 through to the present day. For earlier work by Richard Rogers, Team 4, Richard and Su Rogers and Piano + Rogers, see the Richard Rogers page.

The Richard Rogers Partnership

Lloyd's building, London, UK (1978–84) Fleetguard Manufacturing Plant, Quimper, France (1979–1981) Inmos microprocessor factory, Newport, Wales (1980–1982)[10] Parco Lineare Arno River, Firenze, Italy (1982) PA Technology Centre, Princeton, New Jersey, USA (1982–1985) Old Billingsgate Market, London, UK (1985–1988) Centre Commercial St. Herbain, Nantes, France (1986–1987) The Deckhouse, Thames Reach, London, UK (1986–1989) Paternoster Square, London, UK (1987) 45 Royal Avenue, London, UK (1987) The River Café (London), UK (1987) Reuters Data Centre, London, UK (1987–1992) Kabuki-cho Tower, Tokyo, Japan (1987–1993) Linn Products, Waterfoot, Glasgow (1988) Antwerp Law Courts, Belgium (2000–2006) Marseille Provence Airport, Marignane, France (1989–1992) Heathrow air traffic control tower, London, UK (1989–2007) 124 Horseferry Road, Channel 4 headquarters, London, UK (1990–1994)

European Court of Human Rights building, Strasbourg, France, 1995 88 Wood Street, London, UK (1990–1999) Tower Bridge House, London, UK (1990–2005) Daimler complex, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin (1993–1999) Palais de Justice de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France (1993–1999) Montevetro (apartments), Battersea Reach, London, UK (1994–2000) Lloyd's Register building, London, UK (1995–1999) Minami-Yamashiro Primary School, near Kyoto, Japan (1995–2003) Millennium Dome, London, UK (1996–1999) Broadwick House, London, UK (1996–2000) Designer retail outlet centre, Ashford, Kent, UK (1996–2000) Madrid-Barajas Airport terminal 4, Madrid, Spain (1997–2006) Chiswick Business Park, London, UK (1998–) Paddington Waterside, London, UK (1999–2004) Mossbourne Community Academy, London, UK (2002–2004) Senedd (National Assembly for Wales), Cardiff, UK (1999–2005) East River Waterfront, New York City (2004–2006) Hesperia Tower, Barcelona, Spain (2005)

Selection of Richard Rogers Partnership projects
124 Horseferry Road (Channel 4 Building), London, England. Lloyd's building, London, England. The Daimler complex (Linkstraße), Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany. Senedd, Cardiff, Wales. 88 Wood Street, London, England. Law Court, Bordeaux, France.

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

London Heathrow Terminal 5, London, UK (1989–2008) [11] Maggie's Centre, London, UK (2001–2008) [8] Bodegas Protos, Peñafiel, Valladolid, Spain (2004-2008) Central Park Station, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (2003-2007) 300 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, D.C., USA (2004–2009)[12] Ching Fu Group Headquarters, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (2005–2007) Campus Palmas Atlas (CPA), Seville, Spain (2005–2009) 3 World Trade Center, New York, USA (2006-2018) Capodichino Underground Station, Naples, Italy (2006-) Santa Maria del Pianto Underground Station, Naples, Italy (2006-2011) Newington Butts, London (2004-2018) Greater Paris / Grand Paris, France (2008-2013) Oxley Woods, Milton Keynes, UK; Government-sponsored 'Design for Manufacture (DfM)' competition (2004-2010)[7] Las Arenas, Barcelona, remodeling of the bullring into a shopping mall (1999-2011)

One Hyde Park, London, UK (2007-2009)[13] NEO Bankside, London, UK (2012)[14] New city centre and tram station in Scandicci, Italy (2006-2013) International Towers Sydney, Barangaroo, Sydney, Australia (2010-2016)[15] 122 Leadenhall Street, also known as the Cheesegrater, London (2000-2014) World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre, British Museum, London, UK (2007-2014) 8 Chifly, Sydney, Australia (2005-2013) St. Lawrence Market North Revitalization, Toronto, Canada (2010-) with Adamson Associates Y:Cube, London (2013-2015) PLACE / Ladywell, London, UK (2014-2016) Centre Building, London School of Economics, London (2014-2019) Centre de conservation du Louvre, Liévin, France (2015-2019) International Quarter London, London (2014-ongoing) Taoyuan International Airport T3, Taipei, Taiwan (2015-ongoing)

Selection of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners projects
Maggie's Centre, London, England. The practice won the 2009 Stirling Prize. 3 World Trade Center, New York City, USA NEO Bankside, London, England Las Arenas, Barcelona, Spain. International Towers Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

Key personnel

Partners of the firm as of 2014 were Richard Rogers, Mike Davies, Graham Stirk, Ivan Harbour, Andrew Morris, Lennart Grut, Richard Paul, Ian Birtles and Simon Smithson

Current personnel

Richard Rogers

Main article: Richard Rogers

The Pompidou Centre in Paris

Richard Rogers is the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate and was knighted in 1991 and made a life peer in 1996.[16]

Rogers' first work came when he co-founded Team 4 in 1963 with Su Brumwell, Wendy Cheeseman and Norman Foster. Team 4's first project was Creek Vean, a residential property in Cornwall. Team 4 dissolved in 1967.[17] He then established a partnership with Su Rogers (née Brumwell), John Young and Laurie Abbott in 1967. By July 1971 Rogers had won a design competition to build the Pompidou Centre in Paris with co-partner with Italian architect Renzo Piano.

In 1977 he established the Richard Rogers Partnership with Marco Goldschmied and Mike Davies, where they went on to build the Lloyd's building and Millennium Dome both in London, the Senedd in Cardiff, and the European Court of Human Rights building in Strasbourg. He is a winner of the RIBA Gold Medal, the Thomas Jefferson Medal, the RIBA Stirling Prize, the Minerva Medal and Pritzker Prize.

Ivan Harbour

Main article: Ivan Harbour

The Law Courts in Antwerp

Ivan Harbour joined Richard Rogers Partnership in 1985, in 1993 he was made a senior director. In 2007 the practice changed from Richard Rogers Partnership to Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Harbour led the design team for the Senedd (National Assembly for Wales building), Terminal 4 Barajas Airport, Madrid (winner of the 2006 Stirling Prize), the Law Courts in Antwerp and Bordeaux and the European Court of Human Rights building in Strasbourg.

Harbour was lead architect for the Madrid Airport Terminal 4 project[3] and Project Director for the first Maggie's Cancer Centre in London (winner of the 2009 Stirling Prize), and 300 New Jersey Avenue, an office building in Washington DC (due for completion in Summer 2009).[18]

Graham Stirk

Main article: Graham Stirk

Stirk was Design Director at NEO Bankside

Graham Stirk joined Richard Rogers Partnership in 1983 and was made a senior director in 1995. In 2007 the practice changed from Richard Rogers Partnership to Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. He has been involved in the design of a number of projects in the UK as well as projects worldwide, including Japan, USA, France, Italy, Spain, Germany and Ireland.

Stirk is the Design Director of several major projects, including a 48-storey office tower at 122 Leadenhall Street that could become the tallest tower in the City of London and NEO Bankside in London, a residential scheme consisting of 229 apartments and an extension to the British Museum. Stirk also contributed to the design of several key masterplanning projects including Potsdamer Platz, Berlin and Paddington Basin, London. Stirk was Director in Charge of the expansion to the Lloyds Register of Shipping building at 71 Fenchurch Street, One Hyde Park and 88 Wood Street.[19]

Mike Davies

Davies was the project director on Heathrow Terminal 5 project

Main article: Mike Davies (architect)

Mike Davies was a founding partner of the Richard Rogers Partnership and a senior partner in Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.[20] He joined the partnership between Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano in 1971, shortly after they won the commission to design the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and later became one of the founding directors of the Richard Rogers Partnership in 1977.

Davies was the project director for the Millennium Dome in London and for Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport and is currently project director for Grand Paris.[21] He stepped down from his role in the company at the end of 2015.[6]

Rogers Stirk Harbour reorganised the business at the end of 2015 and Davies stepped down from his role as a partner in the company. He was to continue working for them in a part-time capacity.[6]

Previous personnel

Marco Goldschmied

Main article: Marco Goldschmied

Marco Goldschmied first joined Richard Rogers in 1969.[22]

He was co-founder of the Richard Rogers Partnership along with Mike Davies and John Young in 1977 became its managing director in 1984. He left the practice on 30 June 2004.[23] Rogers and Goldschmied were involved in a £10 million lawsuit, which was settled out of court in 2006, where the Richard Rogers Partnership would remain in the property along with River Café.[24]

Laurie Abbott

Laurie Abbott built house in Frimley, Surrey

Laurie Abbott joined Team 4 as an assistant architect, working on Creek Vean in Cornwall.[25]

He built small development of properties in Frimley, was a senior director at the Richard Rogers Partnership, and was involved in the Pompidou Centre and the Lloyd's building.

Amanda Levete

Main article: Amanda Levete

Amanda Levete was born 17 November 1955. She joined the Richard Rogers Partnership in 1984, and left in 1989 to join Jan Kaplický as a partner in Future Systems.

John Young

Richard and Su Rogers along with John Young and Laurie Abbott, went into partnership after Team 4 had dissolved. He continued to work with Richard Rogers while in the Piano + Rogers partnership. Young along with Goldschmeid, Davies and Rogers set up the Richard Rogers Partnership in 1976.[26]

Notes

1. "RIBA Announces 2015 Stirling Prize Shortlist". ArchDaily. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
2. "People Partners". Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
3. "Interview: architects Richard Rogers, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour". The Guardian. 28 January 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
4. "Theory: Public domain". Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
5. "Social awareness". Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
6. Laura Mark (17 November 2015). "Davies to step down as RSHP announces new partners". The Architects' Journal. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
7. "Oxley Woods wins the Manser Medal". RIBA. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
8. "RIBA Stirling Prize 2009". RIBA. Archived from the original on 2009-09-30. Retrieved 2009-11-26.
9. "Riba Stirling Prize 2015: NEO Bankside". BBC News. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
10. "INMOS Factory – Richard Rogers". Retrieved 19 April 2009.
11. Glancey, Jonathan (21 November 2001). "It's been so long, is terminal 5 now out of date?". The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
12. Kennicott, Phil (23 July 2009). "Richard Rogers's New Jersey Avenue Building a Tame Return to Capitol". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
13. Moore, Rowan (23 January 2011). "One Hyde Park – review". The Observer. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
14. "NEO Bankside". New London Architecture. Archived from the original on 15 January 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
15. "Renzo Piano joins Rogers Stirk Harbour and Wilkinson Eyre for Sydney harbour overhaul". www.dezeen.com. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
16. "Richard Rogers". Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Retrieved 2010-07-04.
17. "Richard Rogers, Architect (1933-), From the House to the City". Design Museum. Retrieved 2009-10-04.
18. "Ivan Harbour". Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Retrieved 2010-07-04.
19. "Graham Stirk". Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Retrieved 2010-07-04.
20. Tim Walker (19 November 2011). "Any colour as long as it's red". The Independent. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
21. "Mike Davies". Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Retrieved 2010-07-04.
22. Allinson, Kenneth (2008). The Architects and Architecture of London. Oxford and Burlington: Elsevier. ISBN 9780750683371. Retrieved 2010-07-03.
23. "Rogers MD Marco Goldschmied declares retirement rumours true". HighBeam Research. Retrieved 2010-07-04.
24. "Rogers and Goldschmied end legal battle out of court". Architects' Journal. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
25. "Creekvean and Attached Entrance Bridge and Walls to Road, Feock". BritishListedBuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-06-15.
26. "Richard Rogers, Pritzker Speech" (PDF). Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2010-07-08.

External links

• Media related to Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website
• Profile of Richard Rogers, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour