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The groundbreaking architect wanted his designs to be part of revitalised urban landscapes, arguing that parks and public spaces should be developed alongside office buildings and that mass transit.

He promoted a vision of densely populated cities developed around technology and mass transit.

LONDON -- Richard Rogers, the British architect who helped change the look of modern cities by putting features like elevators and air ducts on the outside of his buildings, has died at 88.

Richard Rogers, the British architect who helped change the look of modern cities by putting features like elevators and air ducts on the outside of his buildings, has died at 88. Rogers burst into public view in 1972 when work began on the Pompidou Centre in Paris, a futuristic block of scaffolding-like metal pipes and…

LONDON (AP) — Richard Rogers, the British architect who helped change the look of modern cities by putting features like elevators and air ducts on the outside of his buildings,

LONDON (AP) — Richard Rogers, the British architect who helped change the look of modern cities by putting features like elevators and air ducts on the outside of his buildings,

LONDON (AP) — Richard Rogers, the British architect who helped change the look of modern cities by putting features like elevators and air ducts on the outside of his buildings,

Pioneering, sometimes controversial architect who designed some of the world's most iconic buildings.

Rogers was a ground-breaking architect best-known for his Pompidou Centre, which he designed with Renzo Piano, as well as Lloyd’s of London Building, the

LONDON (AP) — Richard Rogers, the British architect who helped change the look of modern cities by putting features like elevators and air ducts on the outside of his buildings,