RSHP’S NEW FRENCH OFFICE

Richard Rogers’ best known early work is arguably the Centre Pompidou in Paris, completed in 1977 with Renzo Piano. In the same year, the architect founded the Richard Rogers Partnership in London, which evolved into Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) in 2007. Now the practice has 11 partners and has just launched a new office in Paris – marking Rogers’ retirement by returning, in a way, to where it all began. ‘We currently have a range of exciting new projects in progress there, in a range of typologies at a wide range of scales,’ says RSHP partner responsible for France, Stephen Barrett. ‘Prompted by Brexit and the regrettable drawing up of once permeable boundaries that it implies, we are finally taking the plunge in setting up a Paris office, all these years after the project office that Richard and Renzo established in the early 1970s. Of course, we’ve never really been away, and London and Paris are so very close, but this step is also an affirmation, an important symbol of confidence and commitment to a country and to clients we value deeply.’ The Drawing Gallery at Château La Coste is part of a growing list of work in France for the office, including: • Maine Montparnasse masterplan, 2019-ongoing • Gare de Lyon Daumesnil masterplan, 2014-ongoing • Bercy Charenton masterplan, 2009-ongoing • The Roads of the Future Grand Paris, 2019 • One Monte Carlo, 2019 • Centre de conservation du Louvre à Liévin, 2019 • Terminal 1 at Saint Exupéry Airport in Lyon, 2018 • Grand Paris, 2013 • European Court of Human Rights, 1995