Kevin Roche, architect: A legacy that sets standards

The architect Kevin Roche has died, aged 96, in Connecticut. Roche won innumerable awards for his cutting-edge work on more than 200 landmark buildings. In 1982, he was given the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s Nobel laureate. The designer of Dublin’s Convention Centre (CCD), he died on Friday night.

Roche was born in Dublin and, like many of his contemporaries, moved to America. His legacy includes the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oakland Museum, UN Plaza, and the Ford Foundation headquarters in New York, and he was the driving force behind some 38 corporate headquarters, seven research facilities, various theatres, at least one zoo, and museums (including the Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Islamic Wing at New York’s Museum of Art).