A bitter legal battle could force the architect Lord Rogers of Riverside to move out of his London headquarters and close the River Café, his wife’s restaurant downstairs.
Marco Goldschmied, Lord Rogers’ former business partner, has lodged a £10m High Court claim against the new Labour peer and John Young, the third founding partner of the Richard Rogers Partnership, who is now retired.
Goldschmied wants to sell the Hammersmith complex that made all three of them millionaires when the bought and redeveloped it in the 1980s.