Chris Rogers
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
- 5 min
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
- 4 min
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
- 4 min
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
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 8 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 8 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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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Chris Rogers
- Feb 18, 2022
- 4 min
Face/Off
Today the National Gallery published its chosen architect’s initial proposals to remodel the building’s Sainsbury Wing entrance and a...
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Chris Rogers
- Feb 8, 2022
- 3 min
Platinum Line
Yesterday journalists got their first official look at the completed Elizabeth Line, thirteen and a half years after work on the new...
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Chris Rogers
- Feb 4, 2022
- 1 min
PROJECT TRACKER: City of London Law Courts
This week an important step was taken to move the new City of London Law Courts project forward, two years since I first wrote about the...
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Chris Rogers
- Jan 30, 2022
- 4 min
Michael Pearson, 1933-2021
“There are some things I’ve done I’d like to discuss...” It was over lunch at the Chelsea Arts Club’s convivially-close tables that...
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Chris Rogers
- Jan 11, 2022
- 4 min
House of architecture or house of horrors?
The Royal Institute of British Architects today launched a limited competition to masterplan and design the first phase refurbishment of...
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Chris Rogers
- Dec 23, 2021
- 7 min
Lloyd’s: Risk and reward?
As tributes continue to be paid to Richard Rogers, Lloyd’s of London is still quietly pondering a major remodelling of his One Lime...
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