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Leadenhall Building, designed by RSH+P and now its head office. In the foreground, the Lloyd's building also designed by RSH+P.
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Key architects | Richard Rogers, Graham Stirk, Ivan Harbour |
Founded | 1977 as the Richard Rogers Partnership |
Location | Level 14, 122 Leadenhall Street, London. |
Buildings | Maggie's Centre, London One Hyde Park, London Heathrow Terminal 5, London Central Park Station, Taiwan |
Projects | Grand Paris |
Awards | Manser Medal (2008) Stirling Prize (2006 & 2009) |
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSH+P) is a British architectural firm, founded in 1977 and originally known as the Richard Rogers Partnership. Its main offices are located in the Leadenhall Building, London. Previously they were at the Thames Wharf Studios. In its various incarnations it is known for many important buildings including Lloyd's building and the Millennium Dome in London and the National Assembly for Wales building in Cardiff.
The firm's principal offices are located at Leadenhall Building in London. It also maintains offices in Shanghai and Sydney. As of March 2016[update] the firm has thirteen partners, including Richard Rogers, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour. The practice is run with a profit-share scheme and a limit on the directors' salaries in comparison with those of the lowest paid in the office.
The practice is strongly focused on sustainability, urban regeneration and social awareness, themes that have long been a feature of Rogers' work. Celebration of public space and the encouragement of public activities is also a recurring theme.
It is owned by a charitable trust, ensuring that no individual owns any share in its value and preventing private trading and inheritance of shares. The practice divides its profits between all of the staff and their chosen charities, according to publicly declared principles.
Soon after the Pompidou Centre in Paris was opened in 1977, Richard Rogers formed the Richard Rogers Partnership and started work on the Lloyd's building in London. Richard Rogers explained the reason for the change of the practice name from the Richard Rogers Partnership to Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in 2007 was because "We wanted to avoid the situation where the name of the practice is someone who died 100 years ago. Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change – but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years."