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Richard Rogers, high-tech modernist who won architecture’s Pritzker Prize, dies at 88

He was best known for designing the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Lloyd’s insurance building in London.

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Architects Richard Rogers, left, and Renzo Piano stand outside one of their best-known buildings, the Pompidou Center in Paris, in 2017. (Martin Bureau/AFP via Getty Images)
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Richard Rogers, a British architect whose unorthodox, inside-out designs for the Pompidou Center in Paris and Lloyd’s insurance headquarters in London transfixed the architecture world and helped bring him his field’s highest honor, the Pritzker Prize, died Dec. 18 at his home in London. He was 88.

His death was confirmed by Vicki Macgregor, the head of communications at Mr. Rogers’s London-based firm, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. She did not cite a cause.