Richard
17th-century portrait of Richard the Lionheart, a 12th-century King of England
Pronunciation	/ˈrɪtʃərd/
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/Name	Proto-Germanic
Meaning	powerful leader
Other names
Nickname(s)	Rich, Rick, Dick, Ricardo, Richie, Dickie, Richardo, Rico, Richtard, Reeks

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The first or given name Richard derives from German, French, and English "ric" (ruler, leader, king) and "hard" (strong, brave, court), therefore it means "powerful leader" as well as "King's Court".^[1] The name Richard is most often used as a boy name or male name.

Richard is a typical name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Swedish and Dutch.

People named Richard[link]

Rulers and aristocrats[link]

• Richard I of England or Richard the Lionheart (1157–1199)
• Richard II of England (1367–1400)
• Richard III of England (1452–1485)
• Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York (1473-1483?), who would have been Richard IV of England if he had lived
• Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (1411-1460), a principal participant in the Wars of the Roses
• Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall (1209-1272), elected King of Germany
• Richard, Duke of Burgundy (died 921)
• Richard I, Duke of Normandy (933-996)
• Richard II, Duke of Normandy (died 1026), son of Richard I of Normandy
• Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington (1612-1698), Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and a cavalier
• Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694-1753), instrumental in the revival of Palladian architecture
• Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester (1222-1262)
• Richard fitz Gilbert (before 1035-c. 1090), Norman lord involved in the conquest of England
• Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel (c. 1306-1376), English military leader
• Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel (1346-1397), English military commander
• Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple (1711-1779), British politician and associate and brother-in-law of William Pitt
• Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh (1641-1712), Irish peer, and politician both in the Parliaments of England and Ireland
• Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428-1471), wealthy English magnate and major protagonist in the Wars of the Roses
• Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (1400-1460), Yorkist leader in the Wars of the Roses
• Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers (c. 1660-1712), soldier and noted rake
• Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1797-1861), noted for squandering his great wealth
• Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1823-1889), British soldier, politician and administrator
• Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842), Anglo-Irish Governor-General of India, Foreign Secretary in the British Cabinet and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, brother of the 1st Duke of Wellington
• Richard I of Capua (died 1078), King of Capua and Count of Aversa
• Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster (1259-1326)

In politics and government[link]

• Richard Acland (1906-1990), one of the founders of the British Common Wealth Party and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
• Richard "Dick" Cheney (born 1941), Vice President of the United States under George W. Bush
• Richard Court (born 1947), Australian politician, former Premier of Western Australia
• Richard Cromwell (1626-1712), son of Oliver Cromwell, and his successor as Lord Protector of England
• Richard J. Daley (1902-1976), mayor of Chicago
• Richard M. Daley (born 1942), American former state senator and mayor of Chicago, son of Richard J. Daley
• Richard Hatfield (1931-1991), Canadian politician, Premier of New Brunswick
• Richard Nixon (1913-1994), only President of the United States to resign from office
• Richard Rush (1780-1859), United States Attorney General and Secretary of the Treasury
• Richard Stockton (U.S. Senator) (1764-1828)

Businesspeople[link]

• Richard DeVos (born 1926), American businessman and co-founder of Amway
• Richard Jacobs (businessman) (1925-2009), real estate businessman and owner of the Cleveland Indians baseball team
• Richard Warren Sears (1863-1914), co-founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company, and considered a promotional genius

Religious figures[link]

• Saint Richard (disambiguation)
• Richard of Dover (died 1184), Benedictine monk and Archbishop of Canterbury
• Richard Foxe (c. 1448-1528), Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester, Lord Privy Seal, and founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford

In music[link]

Classical[link]

• Richard Strauss (1864-1949), German composer and conductor
• Richard Wagner (1813-1883), German composer, conductor, theatre director and polemicist

Other[link]

• Richard Butler (singer) (born 1956), lead singer of the Psychedelic Furs
• Richard Carpenter (musician) (born 1946), one half of the Carpenters
• Ringo Starr (born 1940), real name Richard Starkey, drummer of The Beatles

Actors[link]

• Richard Attenborough (born 1923), English actor, director, producer and entrepreneur
• Richard Burbage (1568-1619), English actor and theatre owner
• Richard Burton (1925-1984), Welsh actor
• Richard Chamberlain (born 1934), American actor
• Richard Dean Anderson (born 1950), American actor
• Richard Dreyfuss (born 1947), American actor
• Richard Harris (1930-2002), Irish actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer
• Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer
• Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012) was an American radio and television personality

Explorers[link]

• Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat
• Richard E. Byrd (1888-1957), U.S. Navy rear admiral, aviator and explorer

Military figures[link]

• Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726-1799), British naval commander in the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars
• Richard Taylor (general) (1826-1879), American Civil War Confederate general

In sports[link]

• Richard Newland (1713-1778), English cricketer
• Richard Petty (born 1937), former NASCAR driver
• Richard Sears (tennis) (1861-1943), winner of seven consecutive U.S. Championships

Scientists[link]

• Richard Feynman (1918-1988), American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
• Richard Leakey (born 1944), politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist

Other[link]

• Richard Garriott (born 1961), video game developer and entrepreneur
• Richard Maury (1882-1950), American naturalized Argentine engineer

Cognates/transliterations[link]

Indo-European Germanic languages[link]

• Dutch: Rijkert, Rikkert, Richard, Rick
• Icelandic: Ríkharður
• Low German: Ri(c)kert
• Scandinavian: Rickard, Richard, Rikard, Ríkarður

Indo-European Latin languages[link]

• Catalan and Occitan: Ricard
• French: Richard
• Italian: Riccardo
• Latin: Richardus
• Portuguese: Ricardo
• Spanish: Ricardo

Indo-European Slavic languages[link]

• Croatian: Rikard
• Czech: Richard
• Polish: Ryszard
• Russian: Ричард (Richard)
• Slovene: Rihard
• Ukrainian: Річард (Richard)

Other Indo-European languages[link]

• Breton: Richarzh
• Esperanto: Rikardo
• Greek: Ριχάρδος (Richárdos)
• Irish: Risteárd, Riocard
• Latvian: Ričards, Rihards
• Lithuanian: Ričardas
• Persian: ریچارد (Ritchard)
• Scottish Gaelic: Ruiseart
• Welsh: Rhisiart

Other languages[link]

• Arabic: ريتشارد (Rytshrd, Ritshrd, Rytshard, Ritshard)
• Basque: Rikard
• Chinese: 理查德 (Lĭchádé)
• Finnish: Rikhard
• Hebrew: ריצ'רד (Ritzard)
• Hungarian: Richárd
• Japanese: リチャード (Richado)
• Korean: 리차드
• Saami: Rikkar

Short forms[link]

• Czech: Ríša
• English: Rick, Rich, Dick, Dickie, Rik, Ric
• Estonian: Riho
• Finnish: Riku
• Hungarian: Ricsi, Ricsike, Rics
• Polish: Rysio, Rysiek, Ryś
• Portuguese: Rico, Ric
• Slovak: Rišo, Riško, Riči
• Spanish: Cayo (Guatemala)

Pet forms[link]

• English: Ricky, Rickie, Rikki, Richie, Richy, Richu, Rich, Dickie

References[link]

• 2. Meaning of Richard (English)

• 3. Meaning of Richard (French)

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Richard Clayderman
Background information
Birth name	Philippe Pagès
Born	(1953-12-28) 28 December 1953 (age 58)
Origin	Paris, France
Genres	Instrumental pop Classical Easy listening Semi-classical
Occupations	Pianist
Instruments	Piano
Years active	1976–present
Labels	Delphine

Richard Clayderman (born Philippe Pagès, 28 December 1953, Paris, France) is a French pianist who has released numerous albums including the compositions of Paul de Senneville and Olivier Toussaint, instrumental renditions of popular music, rearrangements of movie soundtracks, ethnic music, and easy-listening arrangements of most popular works of classical music.

Early life[link]

Clayderman learned piano from his father, a piano teacher.

At the age of twelve, he was accepted into the Conservatoire de Paris, where he won great acclaim in his later adolescent years. Financial difficulties, not the least precipitated by his father's illness, forestalled a promising career as a classical pianist. So in order to earn a living, he found work as a bank clerk and as an accompanist to contemporary bands. He accompanied French singers such as Johnny Hallyday, Thierry Le Luron, and Michel Sardou.

Ballade pour Adeline[link]

In 1976, he was invited by Olivier Toussaint, a French record producer, and his partner Paul de Senneville, to record a gentle piano ballad. de Senneville had composed this ballad as a tribute to his new daughter "Adeline". The 23-year-old Pagès was auditioned along with 20 other pianists and got the job. "He was an interesting musician with a soft touch and good technique", said Toussaint. "And he looked good, too".^[1]

Pagès' name was changed to Richard Clayderman (he adopted his great-grandmother's last name to avoid mispronunciation of his real name outside France), and the single took off, selling 22 million copies in 38 countries.^{[citation needed]} It was called "Ballade pour Adeline".

Success[link]

Clayderman has recorded over 1,300 melodies, and has created a new romantic style through a repertoire which combines his trademark originals with classics and pop standards. He has devoted much of his time to performing concerts, going as far as playing 200 shows in 250 days.^{[citation needed]} He has clocked up worldwide record sales of approximately 70 million, as of 2006^[update], and has 267 gold and 70 platinum discs to his credit. He is popular in Asia and is noted by the Guinness Book of World Records as being "the most successful pianist in the world".^[2]

He lives in Saint-Ouen (near Paris) with his wife Christine, his son Peter, and his daughter Maud.

Discography[link]

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See also[link]

• List of best selling music artists

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• His biography
• Play Album of Richard Clayderman
• Richard Clayderman

The Lord Rogers of Riverside
Rogers (left) with Queen Elizabeth II and Sue Essex AM (right), at the opening of the Senedd building in Cardiff, Wales.
Born	(1933-07-23) 23 July 1933 (age 78) Florence, Italy
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Architectural Association School of Architecture, Yale School of Architecture
Awards	RIBA Gold Medal (1985) Thomas Jefferson Medal (1999) Stirling Prize (2006), (2009) Minerva Medal (2007) Pritzker Prize (2007)
Work
Practice	Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Buildings	Centre Georges Pompidou Lloyd's building Millennium Dome European Court of Human Rights Madrid-Barajas Airport terminal 4 London Heathrow terminal 5
Projects	Towards an Urban Renaissance Grand Paris

Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside CH Kt FRIBA FCSD (born 23 July 1933) is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs.

Rogers is perhaps best known for his work on the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Lloyd's building and Millennium Dome both in London, and the European Court of Human Rights building in Strasbourg. He is a winner of the RIBA Gold Medal, the Thomas Jefferson Medal, the RIBA Stirling Prize, the Minerva Medal and Pritzker Prize.

Early life and career[link]

Lloyd's building in 1991

Rogers was born in Florence in 1933 and attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, before graduating with a master's degree from the Yale School of Architecture in 1962.^[1] While studying at Yale, Rogers met fellow architecture student Norman Foster and planning student Su Brumwell. On returning to England he, Foster and Brumwell set up architectural practice as Team 4 with Wendy Cheeseman (Brumwell later married Rogers, Cheeseman married Foster).^[2] Rogers and Foster earned a reputation for what was later termed by the media high-tech architecture.^[3]

By 1967, Team 4 had split up, but Rogers continued to collaborate with Su Rogers, along with John Young and Laurie Abbott.^[4] In early 1968 he was commissioned to design a house and studio for Humphrey Spender near Maldon, Essex, a glass cube framed with I-beams. He continued to develop his ideas of prefabrication and structural simplicity to design a Wimbledon house for his parents. This was based on ideas from his conceptual 'Zip Up' house,^[5] such as the use of standardised components based on refrigerator panels to make energy-efficient buildings. Rogers subsequently joined forces with Italian architect Renzo Piano, a partnership that was to prove fruitful. His career leapt forward when he and Piano won the design competition for the Pompidou Centre in July 1971, alongside a team from Ove Arup that included Irish engineer Peter Rice.

This building established Rogers's trademark of exposing most of the building's services (water, heating and ventilation ducts, and stairs) on the exterior, leaving the internal spaces uncluttered and open for visitors to the centre's art exhibitions. This style, dubbed "Bowellism" by some critics, was not universally popular at the time the centre opened in 1977, but today the Pompidou Centre is a widely admired Parisian landmark. Rogers revisited this inside-out style with his design for London's Lloyd's building, completed in 1986 - another controversial design which has since become a famous and distinctive landmark in its own right.

Later career[link]

Aerial view of the Millennium Dome

Senedd, National Assembly for Wales

Madrid-Barajas Airport terminal 4

After working with Piano, Rogers established the Richard Rogers Partnership along with Marco Goldschmied, Mike Davies and John Young in 1977.^[6] This became Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in 2007. The firm maintains offices in London, Barcelona, Madrid, and Tokyo.

Rogers has devoted much of his later career to wider issues surrounding architecture, urbanism, sustainability and the ways in which cities are used. One early illustration of his thinking was an exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1986, entitled "London As It Could Be", which also featured the work of James Stirling and Rogers' former partner Norman Foster. This exhibition made public a series of proposals for transforming a large area of central London, subsequently dismissed as impractical by the city's authorities.

In 1995, he became the first architect to deliver the BBC's annual Reith Lectures. This series of five talks, titled Sustainable City, were later adapted into the book Cities for a Small Planet (Faber and Faber: London 1997, ISBN 0-571-17993-2). The BBC made these lectures available to the public for download in July, 2011.^[7]

In 1998, he set up the Urban Task Force at the invitation of the British government, to help identify causes of urban decline and establish a vision of safety, vitality and beauty for Britain's cities. This work resulted in a white paper, Towards an Urban Renaissance, outlining more than 100 recommendations for future city designers. Rogers also served for several years as chair of the Greater London Authority panel for Architecture and Urbanism. He resigned from this post in 2009.^[8] He has been Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation. From 2001 to 2008 he was chief advisor on architecture and urbanism to Mayor of London Ken Livingstone; he was subsequently asked to continue his role as an advisor by new mayor Boris Johnson in 2008. He stood down from the post in October 2009. Rogers has also served as an advisor to the mayor of Barcelona on urban strategies.

Amidst this extra-curricular activity, Rogers has continued to create controversial and iconic works. Perhaps the most famous of these, the Millennium Dome, was designed by the Rogers practice in conjunction with engineering firm Buro Happold and completed in 1999. It was the subject of fierce political and public debate over the cost and contents of the exhibition it contained, although the building itself cost only £43 million.^[9]

In May 2006, Rogers' practice was chosen as the architect of Tower 3 of the new World Trade Center in New York City, replacing the old World Trade Center which was destroyed in the September 11 attacks.

Some of Rogers' recent plans have failed to get off the ground. The practice was appointed to design the replacement to the Central Library in the Eastside of Birmingham; however, his plan was shelved for financial reasons. City Park Gate, the area adjacent to the land the library would have stood on, is now being designed by Ken Shuttleworth's MAKE Architects.

Selected projects[link]

Team 4[link]

• Creek Vean, Cornwall, UK (1966)
• Reliance Controls factory, Swindon, UK (1967)

Richard and Su Rogers, with John Young and Laurie Abbott[link]

• 22 Parkside (Dr. Nino and Dada Rogers' house), Wimbledon, London, UK (1967)^[10]
• Zip Up house (1968)
• Humphrey Spender's house, Maldon, UK (1967–1968)

Piano + Rogers[link]

• Universal Oil Products, Tadworth, UK (1969–1974)
• B&B Italia headquarters, Como, Italy (1972–1973)^[11]
• Pompidou Centre, Paris, France (1971–77)
• IRCAM, Paris, France (1971–1977)
• Patscentre Research Laboratory, Melbourn, UK (1976–1983)

The Richard Rogers Partnership[link]

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners[link]

Las Arenas, Barcelona

Palmas Altas in Seville, buildings F and G

• London Heathrow Terminal 5, London, UK (1989–2008) Image Gallery of Heathrow Terminal 5
• Maggie's Centre, London, UK (2001–2008)
• Bodegas Protos, Peñafiel, Valladolid, Spain (2008)
• Central Park Station (R9), Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit system, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan (2003–2007)
• 300 New Jersey Avenue, Washington, D.C., USA (2004–2009)
• Ching Fu Group Headquarters, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (2005–2007)
• Campus Palmas Altas Seville, Spain; Abengoa's Headquarters (2005–2009)
• 175 Greenwich Street, New York, USA (2006-)
• Capodichino Underground Station, Naples, Italy (2006-)
• Santa Maria del Pianto Underground Station, Naples, Italy (2006-)
• British Museum, Northwest Development, London, UK (2007-)
• 360-London (2007-)
• Greater Paris / Grand Paris, France (2008-)
• Oxley Woods, Milton Keynes, UK; Government-sponsored 'Design for Manufacture (DfM)' competition (completion expected 2010)
• Las Arenas, Barcelona, remodeling of the bullring into a shopping mall (opened March, 2011^[13])
• One Hyde Park, London (2007–2010)
• Leadenhall building, London, UK (completion expected 2012-2014)
• Neo Bankside, London, UK (completion expected 2012)^[14] [1]
• New city centre and tram station in Scandicci, Italy (2007-)
• Barangaroo, Sydney, Australia (2009-) [2]

Honours and awards[link]

Rogers was knighted in 1981 by Queen Elizabeth II. He was created Baron Rogers of Riverside in 1996. He sits as a Labour peer in the House of Lords.^[15] Rogers was appointed a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in the 2008 Birthday Honours list.

Rogers was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1985 and made a Chevalier, L’Ordre National de la Légion d'honneur in 1986. He received a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 10th Mostra di Architettura di Venezia.^[16] In 2006, the Richard Rogers Partnership was awarded the Stirling Prize for Terminal 4 of Barajas Airport,^[17] and again in 2009 for Maggie's Centre in London.^[18] In 2007 Rogers was made Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize - architecture's highest honour.^[19] He was awarded the Minerva Medal by the Chartered Society of Designers in the same year.

Rogers has been awarded honorary degrees from several universities, including Alfonso X El Sabio University in Madrid, Oxford Brookes University, the University of Kent, the Czech Technical University in Prague and the Open University. In 1994, he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) by the University of Bath.^[20]

Palestine controversy[link]

In February 2006, Lord Rogers hosted the inaugural meeting of the campaigning organisation Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine (APJP) in his London offices. At that time his practice had secured a number of projects in New York, including the redevelopment of the Silvercup Studios site, a masterplan for the East River Waterfront and a commission for a $1.7 billion expansion of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Centre in Manhattan. Rogers publicly dissociated himself from the group within weeks, however, following the widely expressed public sentiment from generally pro-Israeli New York voters and politicians, which threatened him with the loss of prestigious commissions including projects in New York and abroad.^[21] He announced his withdrawal with the statement "I unequivocally renounce Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine and have withdrawn my relationship with them."^[22]

Rogers at first said he was dissociating himself from APJP because of its published aims and "in view of the suggested boycott (of Israeli companies) by some members", although APJP denied it was promoting such a boycott. Rogers subsequently hardened his line, coming out with statements defending Israel's right to build its separation wall. He described the Israel-Palestine conflict as being between a "terrorist" state and a "democratic" one and said that he was "all for the democratic state".

Family[link]

Rogers is married to Ruth Rogers, chef and co-owner of The River Café restaurant in west London. They have two sons together, Roo and Bo. He also has three sons, Ben, Zad and Ab, from his first marriage to Su Brumwell. He has ten grandchildren.

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Richard Rogers

• Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners website
• Richard Rogers at the archINFORM database
• Large list of major Richard Rogers skyscrapers with data and images
• Rogers, Stirk, Harbour and Partners projects portfolio
• Pritzker Prize 2007
• Interview with Richard Rogers (video)
• Images of Tower 3 (images)
• Richard Rogers presents the 2007 Annual Discourse at the Royal Institute of British Architects (video)

• The 1995 BBC Reith Lectures: Sustainable City by Richard Rogers

Renzo Piano
Piano in 2007
Born	(1937-09-14) 14 September 1937 (age 74) Genoa, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Alma mater	Politecnico di Milano
Awards	Pritzker Architecture Prize AIA Gold Medal Sonning Prize Royal Gold Medal Kyoto Prize
Work
Practice	Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Buildings	Centre Georges Pompidou Parco della Musica Shard London Bridge

Nemo Science Centre in Amsterdam. The shape reflects the tunnel entrance it is built on

The Living Roof of the California Academy of Sciences, a museum and research facility in San Francisco, California

Kansai International Airport, Osaka, Japan (1991–1994)

Central Saint Giles, London, England (2010)

Renzo Piano, Ufficiale OMRI (born 14 September 1937 in Genoa) is an Italian Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff said of Piano's works that the "...serenity of his best buildings can almost make you believe that we live in a civilized world."^[1]

In 2006, Piano was selected by TIME as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.^[2] He was selected as the 10th most influential person in the "Arts and Entertainment" category of the 2006 Time 100.

Biography[link]

Piano was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1937 into a family of builders. He was educated and subsequently taught at the Politecnico di Milano. He graduated from the University in 1964 and began working with experimental lightweight structures and basic shelters.^[3] From 1965 to 1970 he worked with Louis Kahn and Z.S. Makowsky. He worked together with Richard Rogers from 1971 to 1977; their most famous joint project is the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1977). He also had a long collaboration with the engineer Peter Rice, with whom he shared a practice (L'Atelier Piano and Rice) between 1977 and 1981.

In 1981, Piano founded the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, which today employs 150 people and maintains offices in Paris, Genoa, and New York.^[4]

In 1999, Piano designed a watch entitled "Jelly Piano (GZ159)" for the Swatch Summer Collection. The watch design is clear and the exposed inner workings were influenced by his Centre Georges Pompidou design.^[5]

On 18 March 2008, he became an honorary citizen of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[6]

Piano's recent expansion of the Art Institute of Chicago includes a 264,000-square-foot (24,500 m²) wing with 60,000 square feet (5,600 m²) of gallery space^[7] called the Modern Wing, which opened on 16 May 2009.^[1][8] It includes a "flying carpet", a sunscreen that hovers above the roof and a 620-foot (190 m) steel bridge connecting Millennium Park to a sculpture terrace that leads into a restaurant on the wing’s third floor.^[9]

Select projects[link]

Current[link]

• ARS AEVI Museum of Contemporary Art^[10] in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (1999–)^[11]
• Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Tjuvholmen, Oslo, Norway (2002–)^[12]
• Centro de Arte Botín, Santander, Spain (2011–)
• City Gate, Royal Opera House, Parliament of Malta, and Freedom Square, Valletta, Malta (2009–)
• Columbia University Manhattanville Campus Master Plan and Jerome L. Greene Science Center, New York, New York (2004–)
• Harvard Art Museums expansion and renovation, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2009–)
• Kimbell Art Museum expansion, Fort Worth, Texas (2008–)
• KT Corporation headquarters, Seoul, South Korea (2011–)
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California (2003–)
• Pathé Foundation headquarters, Paris, France (2006–)
• Renzo Piano Tower I & II, San Francisco, California (2006–)
• Sesto San Giovanni masterplan, Milan, Italy (2004–)
• Shard London Bridge, London, England (2000–)^[13]
• Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Greece (2008–)
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York (2005–)

Completed[link]

• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum wing, Boston, Massachusetts (2005–2012)
• Central Saint Giles, London, England (2010)
• Modern Wing expansion of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (2009)
• Nichols Bridgeway, Chicago, Illinois (2009)
• California Academy of Sciences rebuilding, San Francisco, California (2008)
• Vulcano Buono, Nola, Italy (2007)
• The New York Times Building, New York, New York (2003–2007)
• Rocca di Frassinello Winery, Gavorrano, Italy (2002–2007)
• Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland (1999–2005)
• The Morgan Library & Museum expansion, New York, New York (2003–2006)
• Cité Internationale, Lyon, France (1995–2006)
• Weltstadthaus, Cologne, Germany (2005)
• High Museum of Art Expansion, Atlanta, Georgia (2005)
• Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy (2004)
• Il Sole 24 Ore headquarters, Milan, Italy (1998–2004)
• Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas (1999–2003)
• Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy (2002)
• Maison Hermès, Tokyo, Japan (2001)
• Auditorium Paganini, Parma, Italy (2001)
• Aurora Place, Sydney, Australia (1996–2000)
• Potsdamer Platz master plan, Berlin, Germany (1992–2000)
• Ferrari wind tunnel, Maranello, Italy (1996–1998)
• Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center, Nouméa, New Caledonia (1991–1998)
• Ushibuka Haiya Bridge, Amakusa, Japan (1991–1997)
• Beyeler Foundation Museum, Basel, Switzerland (1991–1997)
• NEMO science museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (1997)
• Cy Twombly Gallery, Houston, Texas (1995)
• International Terminal, Kansai International Airport, Osaka, Japan (1991–1994)
• Stadio San Nicola, Bari, Italy (1988–1989)
• Menil Collection, Houston, Texas (1982–1987)
• Banca CIS building, Cagliari, Sardinia (1985)
• IBM Travelling Pavilion, (1982–1984)
• IRCAM & the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (1971–1977)

Cancelled[link]

• City Tech Tower, New York, New York
• Trans National Place, Boston, Massachusetts

Awards[link]

Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, 24 March 1990^[14]
Italian Order of Merit for Culture and Art, 28 March 1994^[14]

• In 1989, Piano was the recipient of the Royal Gold Medal.
• In 1990, Piano was the recipient of the Kyoto Prize.
• In 1998, Piano was the recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
• In 2008, Piano was the recipient of the AIA Gold Medal.
• In 2008, Piano was the recipient of the Sonning Prize.

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Renzo Piano

• Official website
• Pritzker Architecture Prize biography
• Profile at GreatBuildings.com

Alan Rusbridger
Alan Rusbridger in 2007
Born	(1953-12-29) 29 December 1953 (age 58) Northern Rhodesia
Occupation	Editor
Notable credit(s)	Editor of The Guardian Deputy Editor of The Guardian
Salary	£455,000 (total renumeration)[1]
Children	2 daughters

Alan Charles Rusbridger (born 29 December 1953, Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia) is the editor of the British newspaper The Guardian. He has also been a reporter and a columnist.

Life and career[link]

Early life[link]

Rusbridger was born in Northern Rhodesia, the son of B.E. (née Wickham) and G.H. Rusbridger, the Director of Education of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). He was educated at Cranleigh School, a boys' independent school in Cranleigh, Surrey, and at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read English.

Career[link]

His first post in journalism was with the Cambridge Evening News. He joined The Guardian as a reporter in 1979 and subsequently wrote the paper's diary column and was a feature writer. He left to become The Observer's TV critic before moving to America to be the Washington editor of the London Daily News. On returning to The Guardian in 1987 he launched the "Weekend" supplement and the paper's "G2" section. As editor from 1995, he oversaw the launch and development of the Guardian Unlimited website. He defended the paper against a number of high-profile defamation suits, including from the Police Federation and the Conservative MPs, Neil Hamilton and Jonathan Aitken. In late 2005 The Guardian responded to the tabloid re-launches of The Times and The Independent by moving from a broadsheet format to the "Berliner" format, common in the rest of Europe.

He is a member of the board of Guardian News and Media, of the main board of the Guardian Media Group and of the Scott Trust, which owns The Guardian and The Observer, of which he is executive editor. Rusbridger received £471,000 in pay and benefits in 2008/9.^[2]

He has written three children's books as well as being the co-author (with Ronan Bennett) of a BBC drama, Fields of Gold.

Other activities[link]

He is visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London. Since 2004 he has been Chairman of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. He is a governor of the Ditchley Foundation,^[3] an organisation which exists to promote international relations.

Rusbridger supports 10:10, a British climate change campaign for a 10% reduction in carbon emissions in 2010.

Personal life and honours[link]

In 1982, he married the educationalist Lindsay Mackie, who was educated at the private St Leonards School, in Islington. She helped found FILMCLUB. They have two daughters (born 1983 and May 1986), one of whom was briefly educated at the independent St Paul's Girls' School in London. In 2009 it was reported that one of his daughters, Isabella, had been working at The Guardian, but had been using her mother's surname as a nom de plume to avoid suspicion of having obtained the job through nepotism.^[4] His wife is good friends with Tessa Jowell, whom she knew at the University of Edinburgh, and he is good friends with her estranged husband, David Mills. They both own cottages near the same Gloucestershire village.^[5] He is Chairman of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.^[6]

Rusbridger received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Lincoln in September 2009^[7] and from the University of Kingston in January 2010.^[8]

In 2010 he was chosen to deliver the annual Andrew Olle Media Lecture in Australia.

Bibliography[link]

• The Guardian Year (1994) edited by Alan Rusbridger ISBN 1-85702-265-3
• The Coldest Day in the Zoo (2004) ISBN 0-14-131745-0
• The Wildest Day at the Zoo (2005) ISBN 0-14-131933-X
• The Smelliest Day at the Zoo (2007) ISBN 0-14-132068-0

References[link]

External links[link]

• Profile and column archive at The Guardian
• Alan Rusbridger on twitter
• Article archive at Journalisted
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Alan Rusbridger on Charlie Rose
• Works by or about Alan Rusbridger in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Alan Rusbridger at the Notable Names Database
• Alan Rusbridger at Puffin Books

Articles

• Embracing Change, Frances Stead Sellers, American Journalism Review, October–November 2006
• What happened when the Guardian editor met Piers Morgan, The Independent, 2 April 2007
• Ombudsmen in the digital future, Alan Rusbridger, Organization of News Ombudsmen, 21 May 2007
• A Chill on 'The Guardian', Alan Rusbridger, The New York Review of Books, 15 January 2009
• The Ben Bradlee of Phone Hacking , Dylan Byers, Adweek, 14 July 2011