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Leighton House, built by Victorian artist Frederic, Lord Leighton, reopens tomorrow. You'll recall that in the summer I experienced the...

Chris Rogers
Oct 14, 20224 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...

Chris Rogers
Aug 15, 20223 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...

Chris Rogers
Jul 9, 20228 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....

Chris Rogers
May 31, 20223 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...

Chris Rogers
May 8, 20222 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...

Chris Rogers
Mar 3, 20224 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...

Chris Rogers
Feb 27, 20223 min read


Face/Off
Today the National Gallery published its chosen architect’s initial proposals to remodel the building’s Sainsbury Wing entrance and a...

Chris Rogers
Feb 18, 20224 min read


Platinum Line
Yesterday journalists got their first official look at the completed Elizabeth Line, thirteen and a half years after work on the new...

Chris Rogers
Feb 8, 20223 min read


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...

Chris Rogers
Feb 4, 20221 min read


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...

Chris Rogers
Jan 30, 20224 min read


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...

Chris Rogers
Jan 11, 20224 min read


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...

Chris Rogers
Dec 23, 20217 min read


Rogers on Rogers
My first encounter with the work of Richard Rogers, who died on Saturday, occurred on a hot weekend in the late Eighties. For a couple of...

Chris Rogers
Dec 20, 20213 min read


Active passiv, outfarm outlier?
The Royal Institute of British Architects’ House of the Year 2021 was announced yesterday evening (full disclosure – I was once...

Chris Rogers
Dec 9, 20213 min read
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