RSHP is a British
architectural firm, founded in 1977 and previously known as the Richard Rogers Partnership which became Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. in 2007. The firm rebranded from Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners to simply RSHP on 30 June 2022, after retirement and death of Richard Rogers. Its main offices are located in the
Leadenhall Building
122 Leadenhall Street, which is also known as the Leadenhall Building, is a skyscraper in central London. It opened in July 2014 and was designed by the Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners; it is known informally as The Cheesegrater because of it ...
, London completed to the firm's designs in 2014. Previously they were at the
Thames Wharf Studios. In its various incarnations it ihas designed many important buildings including the
Lloyd's building
The Lloyd's building (sometimes known as the Inside-Out Building) is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London. It is located on the former site of East India House in Lime Street, in London's main financial district, the City of ...
and the
Millennium Dome in London and the
Senedd building in
Cardiff
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.
Description
In addition to the principal offices the firm also maintains offices in
Shanghai
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and
Sydney. the firm has thirteen partners, including
Graham Stirk
Graham Carl Stirk (born 8 January 1957) is an architect and senior partner at RSHP. He joined the Richard Rogers Partnership in 1983 and by 2007 the name of the practice changed to Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners to reflect his contribution to ...
and
Ivan Harbour. 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.
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.
The practice is strongly focused on
sustainability, urban regeneration and social awareness. Celebration of public space and the encouragement of public activities is also a recurring theme.
History
Soon after the
Pompidou Centre
The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...
in
Paris
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was opened in 1977,
Richard Rogers formed the Richard Rogers Partnership and started work on the
Lloyd's building
The Lloyd's building (sometimes known as the Inside-Out Building) is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London. It is located on the former site of East India House in Lime Street, in London's main financial district, the City of ...
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."
In November 2015 Rogers Stirk Harbour created five new partners including Tracy Meller who became their first female partner. Founding partner
Mike Davies stepped down.
In June 2022 the company rebranded to RSHP, following the retirement and death of Richard Rogers.
Awards
In 2006 the practice was awarded the
Stirling Prize
The Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize is a British prize for excellence in architecture. It is named after the architect James Stirling, organised and awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The S ...
for their
Madrid-Barajas Airport, Terminal 4.
In 2008, RSHP was awarded the Manser Medal for Houses and Housing, given for the best one-off house (
Oxley Woods
Oxley Woods is a housing development in Oxley Park, a district of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The development was designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and built by Newton Woods, who were subcontracted by Taylor Wimpey after w ...
) designed by an architect in the UK.
In 2009 it was awarded the Stirling Prize for
Maggie's Centre
Maggie's centres are a network of drop-in centres across the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, which aim to help anyone who has been affected by cancer. They are not intended as a replacement for conventional cancer therapy, but as a caring enviro ...
in London.
It won the
RIBA National Award
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2015 for NEO Bankside luxury apartments in London and was subsequently shortlisted for the Stirling Prize for the second time.
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
Team 4 was a British architectural firm, established in 1963 by architecture graduates Su Brumwell, Wendy Cheesman, Norman Foster and Richard Rogers. Friction emerged within the firm, and by June 1967, Foster and Rogers decided to dissolve t ...
, Richard and
Su Rogers
Susan Jane Rogers ( Brumwell; born 22 February 1939) is a British designer and educator. She was a co-founder and partner during the 1960s and 1970s in two architectural practices Team 4 and Richard + Su Rogers. From 1986 to 2011, she was a pa ...
and Piano + Rogers, see the
Richard Rogers page.
The Richard Rogers Partnership
RSHP (and formerly Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners)
Key personnel
Partners of the firm were Richard Rogers, Mike Davies, Graham Stirk, Ivan Harbour, Andrew Morris, Lennart Grut, Richard Paul, Ian Birtles and Simon Smithson
Current personnel
Ivan Harbour
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
Barajas may refer to:
*Barajas (Madrid), the district of Madrid in which the airport lies
** Barajas (Madrid Metro), station along Line 8 of the Madrid Metro
**Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, principal airport of Madrid, Spain
* Barajas ( ...
, Madrid (winner of the 2006
Stirling Prize
The Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize is a British prize for excellence in architecture. It is named after the architect James Stirling, organised and awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The S ...
), 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
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).
Graham Stirk
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
122 Leadenhall Street, which is also known as the Leadenhall Building, is a skyscraper in central London. It opened in July 2014 and was designed by the Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners; it is known informally as The Cheesegrater because of its ...
that could become the tallest tower in the
City of London
The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the historic centre and constitutes, alongside Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London. It constituted most of London f ...
and NEO Bankside in London, a residential scheme consisting of 229 apartments and an extension to the
British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...
. Stirk also contributed to the design of several key masterplanning projects including
Potsdamer Platz
Potsdamer Platz (, ''Potsdam Square'') is a public square and traffic intersection in the center of Berlin, Germany, lying about south of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag (German Parliament Building), and close to the southeast corn ...
,
Berlin
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and
Paddington Basin
Paddington Basin is the name given to a long canal basin, and its surrounding area, in Paddington, London.
The basin commences 500 m south of the junction known as Little Venice, of the Regent's Canal and the Paddington Arm of the Grand ...
, London. Stirk was Director in Charge of the expansion to the
Lloyds Register of Shipping building at 71
Fenchurch Street
Fenchurch Street is a street in London linking Aldgate at its eastern end with Lombard Street and Gracechurch Street in the west. It is a well-known thoroughfare in the City of London financial district and is the site of many corporate office ...
,
One Hyde Park
One Hyde Park is a major residential and retail complex located in Knightsbridge, London. The development includes three retail units (Rolex, McLaren Automotive and Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank) and 86 residential properties marketed with prices starti ...
and
88 Wood Street
88 Wood Street is a commercial skyscraper in London, located on Wood Street in the City of London.
The architect was the Richard Rogers Partnership, now known as Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, and the director in charge was Graham Stirk. The ...
.
Previous personnel
Richard Rogers
Richard Rogers won most of the major awards available to architects, including the Royal Gold Medal in 1985, the Praemium Imperiale in 2000 and the 2007 Pritzker Prize. He was knighted in 1991 and made a life peer in 1996. In addition the practice has won numerous awards for individual buildings including the Stirling Prize twice, for Barajas Airport and the Maggie's Centre at Charing Cross Hospital.
He was the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate and was knighted in 1991 and made a life peer in 1996.
Rogers' first work came when he co-founded
Team 4
Team 4 was a British architectural firm, established in 1963 by architecture graduates Su Brumwell, Wendy Cheesman, Norman Foster and Richard Rogers. Friction emerged within the firm, and by June 1967, Foster and Rogers decided to dissolve t ...
in 1963 with Su Brumwell,
Wendy Cheesman and
Norman Foster
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Ethnic and cultural identity
* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
** People or things connected with the Nor ...
. Team 4's first project was Creek Vean, a residential property in Cornwall. Team 4 dissolved in 1967.
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
The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...
in Paris with co-partner with Italian architect
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano (; born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect. His notable buildings include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (with Richard Rogers, 1977), The Shard in London (2012), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City ( ...
.
In 1977 he established the Richard Rogers Partnership with
Marco Goldschmied
Marco Lorenzo Sinnott Goldschmied (28 March 1944 – 7 July 2022) was a British architect best known as co-founder and managing director of Richard Rogers Partnership. He was latterly involved with running the Marco Goldschmied Foundation and ...
and
Mike Davies, where they went on to design the
Lloyd's building
The Lloyd's building (sometimes known as the Inside-Out Building) is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London. It is located on the former site of East India House in Lime Street, in London's main financial district, the City of ...
and
Millennium Dome both in
London
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, the
Senedd in
Cardiff
Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ...
, and the
European Court of Human Rights building in Strasbourg.
In September 2020, Rogers announced that he had stepped down from the practice and that his name would be removed from the firm's in due course. He had formally retired from the board in June of the same year.
Mike Davies
Mike Davies was a founding partner of the Richard Rogers Partnership and a senior partner in RSHP.
He joined the partnership between
Richard Rogers and
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano (; born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect. His notable buildings include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (with Richard Rogers, 1977), The Shard in London (2012), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City ( ...
in 1971, shortly after they won the commission to design the
Pompidou Centre
The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...
in
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
, 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
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.
He stepped down from his role in the company at the end of 2015.
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 continued working for them in a part-time capacity.
Marco Goldschmied
Marco Goldschmied first joined Richard Rogers in 1969.
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.
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.
Laurie Abbott
Laurie Abbott joined Team 4 as an assistant architect, working on Creek Vean in Cornwall.
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
Amanda Levete was born 17 November 1955. She joined the Richard Rogers Partnership in 1984, and left in 1989 to join
Jan Kaplický
Jan Kaplický (; ; 18 April 1937 – 14 January 2009) was a Neofuturistic Czech architect who spent a significant part of his life in the United Kingdom. He was the leading architect behind the innovative design office, Future Systems. He was be ...
as a partner in
Future Systems
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Future Systems was founded by Kaplický and David Nixon after working with Denys Lasdun, Norman Foster, Renzo ...
.
John Young
Richard and Su Rogers along with John Young and Laurie Abbott, went into partnership after
Team 4
Team 4 was a British architectural firm, established in 1963 by architecture graduates Su Brumwell, Wendy Cheesman, Norman Foster and Richard Rogers. Friction emerged within the firm, and by June 1967, Foster and Rogers decided to dissolve t ...
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.
Other notable staff
Numerous other architects worked in the practice before founding their own firms. They include
Eva Jiricna,
Alan Stanton,
Chris Wilkinson
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Career
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, and
Jan Kaplicky.
Notes
External links
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Profile of Richard Rogers, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour
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