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The home Sir Richard Rodgers designed in Wimbledon Village

He's the man behind such designs as the Millennium Dome, Heathrow's Terminal Five and Paris' Pompidou Centre, but Sir Richard Rodgers says his favourite building is the home he designed for his parents in Wimbledon.

Designed 40 years ago, the two bedroom bungalow known simply as the "Wimbledon House" sits among some of London's most expensive properties in Wimbledon Village.

And in a recent interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Sir Richard ranked it as the best of all the buildings bearing his signature.

He said: "I was very close to my parents. They wanted a house that had two bedrooms, and my father was a doctor, so there was a small consulting room.

"They wanted a certain amount of fluidity, somewhere to put the cars, and my mother was a potter, so she wanted a studio.

'It was very much a prototype. You can make a direct link from the Wimbledon House to the Pompidou Centre - it's all there, the exposed steel frame, the bright colours: it's about flexibility, adaptability.

"The idea was that the house could march down the garden and could easily grow as well as change."

The house is now home to Rodger's son, Ab, and his family and was one of the architect's first solo projects after parting company with Lord Norman Foster in 1967.

All the materials and prefabricated panels for the house could be bought from over the counter and the exposed frame of the building inspired the design of the Pompidou Centre in the French capital where everything, from lifts to the sewage pipes, are visible on the outside of the structure.

The inside-out style may have been branded by critics as "bowellism" at the time, but the design became Rodgers trademark in a highly-acclaimed career.

7:23pm Monday 28th April 2008

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