Scofidio led the New York studio alongside his partner in life and work Elizabeth Diller, and fellow architect Charles Renfro.Under their watch, the practice famously designed New Yorks High Line (2009-2019), a 1.5-mile-long public park built on an abandoned, elevated railroad in Manhattan; and The Shed (2019), the iconic home of an arts and culture non-profit.DS+Rs most high-profile projects in the UK include The Tide (2019), a High Line-esque walkway in Londons Greenwich Peninsula; the V&A East Storehouse (set to complete later this year) in Londons Olympic Park; and London West Wall, a controversial mixed-use scheme for the former Museum of London site approved in April 2024.AdvertisementThe practice was also behind never-realised plans for a 288 million London Centre for Music on the Barbican Estate, scrapped in 2021, as well as a major overhaul of Aberdeens Union Terrace Gardens, axedby Aberdeen Council in 2012.DS+R announced the news of Scofidio's death on its Instagram account yesterday (6 March).The studio's statement read: It is with great sadness that we announce DS+R founder Ricardo Scofidio has passed away peacefully on March 6, 2025 at the age of 89.He was surrounded by his family, including his partner in life and work, Elizabeth Diller.DS+R went on to say that Scofidio, a professor emeritus at the Cooper Union School of Architecture, had had a profound impact on our architectural practice, establishing the studio with a mission to make space on his own terms.AdvertisementThe firms partners and principals, many of whom have collaborated with him for decades, will extend his architectural legacy in the work we will continue to perform every day.In 2019, Scofidio and Diller were named winners of the Royal Academys architecture award.Recognised for their inspiring and enduring contribution to architecture, the architects were described by judges as an innovative partnership whose work consistently shows how buildings can enhance cities and capture the public imagination. Source:City of London Corporation/Sheppard Robson/Diller Scofidio + Renfro Sheppard Robson and Diller Scofidio + Renfro's London Wall West scheme (November 2023)In a joint statement at the time, the husband-and-wife team described how they had started as dissidents, challenging architecture as a self-contained discipline and probing its intersections with other cultural forms using a large toolkit of media.The design duo said a combination of naivety and determination had allowed them to realise some challenging projects over time.They added: It was not until our collaboration expanded to include new partners and a growing staff that we were truly able to push architectures untapped agency and convert provocations into meaningful action in cities and institutions.Jury chair Alan Stanton, co-founder of Stanton Williams, told the AJ in 2019: [Diller and Scofidios] architecture is the product of experimentation and taking risk as well as thought, analysis and investigation. It springs from the creative mulch that comes from having worked with other disciplines and practitioners.'Their work is wonderful, I look at it with a deep sense of envy which is always a good sign.11 ds+r the shed iwan baan