Chris Rogers
(Re)facing the future
The words ‘face’ and ‘façade’ are connected etymologically but also practically. Just as the former tells us something about a person’s...
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Chris Rogers
Sep 113 min read
Building changes, building memories
Today’s appeal by English Heritage for our help with finding commemorative blue plaques lost to war, redevelopment or planning is also a...
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Chris Rogers
Aug 265 min read
The horror, the horror
The sustainability agenda is now driving a host of projects that are stripping back, remodelling and upscaling office blocks originally...
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Chris Rogers
May 127 min read
Shape/Shift
“Most people walking along Kingsway aren’t even aware the tower is here…” Nick Durrant of ING Media is describing Space House, the...
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Chris Rogers
Dec 24, 20234 min read
A different kettle of fish
For years I’ve believed that St Magnus House, a riverside office building in the City of London from the prolific practice of Richard...
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Chris Rogers
Oct 14, 20235 min read
Hi(gh)
If you were looking north from the Sky Garden in Fenchurch Street this morning, I could see you. Mind you that probably applies if you...
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Chris Rogers
Jul 22, 20235 min read
A pretty picture
The National Portrait Gallery reopened a month ago today. Reoriented and refreshed physically, by Jamie Fobert Architects and Purcell,...
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Chris Rogers
Jul 18, 20235 min read
Everything old is new again
A generation ago the Financial Times left its purpose-built home in the shadow of St Paul’s for a generic glass box in Southwark. A dozen...
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Chris Rogers
Jun 10, 20234 min read
London’s look out
With new development continuing across London, including in areas like Stratford and Vauxhall that were ignored in previous decades, it...
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Chris Rogers
Apr 17, 20234 min read
Hotel on a high
There are a dozen Hiltons in London, from Paddington to Canary Wharf and from Southwark to Islington. But ask a taxi to take you to ‘the...
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Chris Rogers
Jan 2, 20233 min read
What lies beneath
“There are many 5-star hotels in London but nowhere quite like Claridge’s,” claims its website. This is somewhat ironic, as we shall see,...
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Chris Rogers
Nov 30, 20228 min read
Gallery, going
Richard Jolley’s cartoon, originally done for Private Eye, is fun but accurate: Britain’s national galleries of landscapes and portraits...
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Chris Rogers
Oct 26, 20221 min read
PROJECT TRACKER: City of London Law Courts
What's behind the red curtains? Find out by reading the latest entry in my unique project tracker for the new City of London Law Courts...
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Chris Rogers
Oct 14, 20224 min read
Welcome home
Leighton House, built by Victorian artist Frederic, Lord Leighton, reopens tomorrow. You'll recall that in the summer I experienced the...
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Chris Rogers
Aug 15, 20223 min read
Net zero sum game
A large, prominent commercial block on a major London street is to be demolished. The decision is criticised by professionals and...
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Chris Rogers
Jul 9, 20228 min read
Home work
In three months’ time Leighton House, the studio-turned-museum built by artist Frederic Leighton in the latter part of the nineteenth...
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Chris Rogers
May 31, 20223 min read
What if… the Blitz had missed the Square Mile?
Eighty years ago Nazi Germany’s bombing offensive devastated the City of London, then as now the financial centre of the British capital....
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Chris Rogers
May 8, 20222 min read
Going underground
Until Wednesday one of the ‘Secrets of the London Underground’ was when, exactly, Crossrail would open, but TfL’s announcement that day...
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Chris Rogers
Mar 3, 20224 min read
Barbican bash
The Barbican arts centre within the City of London estate of the same name is 40 years old today, having been opened by the Queen on 3...
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Chris Rogers
Feb 27, 20223 min read
Ill manors
A sunny Sunday is a good time to leaf/click through the property supplement/website of your choice, indulging in the fantasy of buying or...
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