It's a sweetly sensuous style, but not without firm features.
In 1977 Rogers created the Richard Rogers Partnership, a firm featuring some of the designers who worked on the Pompidou Centre.
It is similar to a rival service offered by another firm featured in Guardian Money in the past, Bill Monitor.
Tuckers, the northern law firm featured in The Briefs, deals mainly with committed miscreants (70% of its work is repeat business), and so a sofa juror is immediately sceptical of the innocence of most of the defendants.
Ten years ago, few would have cared whether the executives at Sterling Cooper — the fictional 1960s advertising firm featured in the show, which begins its third season on Sunday — entertained a client with mai tais or bloody marys.
BBC2 tackled the 60s London gangster scene earlier this year with its version of Jake Arnott's novel The Long Firm, featuring a critically acclaimed performance by Mark Strong as Soho crime boss Harry Starks.
More intriguingly, there's a subplot about a property firm, featuring Sinéad Cusack as a businesswoman who emits all the warmth and humanity of a dead shark with a dolphin caught between its teeth.
The design, by Jensvold-Thompson Architects, a California firm, features three wooden arches that rise 60 feet above the stage and frame not only the cultural action but also a view beyond to Boynton Canyon and red rock formations, including Capital Butte.
Nearby, an angular house by GRAFT, a multinational architecture firm, features a porch enclosure that looks as though it had been cracked open by a storm, an unfortunate visual resonance.
Yet at 71, he looks uncannily the same as he did at 45, the same firm features, the same ability to switch from an open smile to a stern gaze.
