Given that France was where Richard Rogers’ career took off—when he and Renzo Piano won the international competition to build the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1971—it is fitting that it should end there. This week, the Richard Rogers Drawing Gallery at Chateau La Coste, just north of Aix-la-Provence, was unveiled; according to the Pritzker laureate’s London firm, Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners, it is his “final work,” begun before Rogers, 87, retired in June 2020.
The structure is one of many pavilions designed by top architects and artists that the Irish developer Paddy McKillen has erected within the grounds of his 500-acre vineyard in Provence. Rogers’ gallery is located to the south of the winery, looking over the estate towards the Luberon mountains. Close by stand works by Kenzo Kuma and Ai WeiWei.
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