'Half of this is about enjoyment'

摘要

When he's not at work, Peter Rogers' principal passion is sailing his 56ft yacht Temerity around the Mediterranean, popping into Sardinian ports and navigating the treacherous Bonifacio Straits between that island and Corsica. And Temerity is an appropriate name considering how Rogers, with his longtime collaborator Sir Stuart Lipton, has pulled off what already looks like the development deal of the year with a firm of eight staff that is not even two years old and has, until now, no projects to its name. Building revealed last month that Lipton Rogers is to be developer of 22 Bishopsgate - the site of the long-stalled "Pinnacle" scheme - in a deal backed by insurer Axa.