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The light-flooded, rectangular room nestles within a frame of orange girders, hanging suspended amid pine trees over a steep incline. The effect is of a strange, surreal beauty, like a UFO taking off across the valley or a window looking on to eternity. The small art gallery, one of five exhibition spaces on the grounds of Château La Coste, was a last creation by Richard Rogers, the great British architect who died last December. An immigrant from Italy, Rogers won the Pritzker Prize, the so-called Nobel of architecture, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth. Bright orange was his favourite colour,...
