Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano (born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect. He is the recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, AIA Gold Medal, Kyoto Prize and ... More »
Academy Picks Renzo Piano and Zoltan Pali to Design Film Museum
Renzo Piano, whose work includes the recent expansion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Zoltan Pali, who has helped restore the Greek Theater and other buildings here, will join in building the film museum. The institution will be located in the old May Company department ... Read more »
Boston’s Gardner Museum’s inaugural exhibitions feature outdoor installations
Arienti has been invited to produce a temporary work for the façade of the new wing, where architect Renzo Piano has designed a 36-foot-high by 16-foot-wide space for changing art installations. Arienti also will produce a guest book for the Living Room orientation area, where visitors ... Read more »
Renzo Piano: 'The Shard is my dream building'
Come and see this", Renzo Piano says, and the 74-year-old Italian architect beckons me out of his office, through the front door, and on to the pavement. We're in the Marais district of Paris, and it's buzzing with early-evening life – shoppers, café denizens, office workers heading for ... Read more »
'The Shard' Skyscraper Rose in London
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, the architect, Renzo Piano, said he wanted to make sure this building wouldn't be seen as a symbol of arrogance and a display of power. More of a 'sparkling, gentle spire,' he said. The shard is seen towering over the Tower Bridge on June 3. Speaking to ... Read more »
Renzo Piano's new Oslo art gallery is a strangely soulless place
'A place for art makes the city a better place to be,' Renzo Piano told me. But his pristine, finely crafted Astrup Fearnley Museum conceals a corporate world of lobby art He is speaking at the opening of the Astrup Fearnley Museum on the Oslo waterfront, a new £65m home for the private ... Read more »
Art Critic Explains Why London's Shard Is A Failure
To Rosenthal, it is the most beautiful building put up in London since St Paul's and its critics – he quotes me and Simon Jenkins – are hidebound stick-in-the-muds who just do not appreciate the genius of Renzo Piano. I am sorry to disappoint Rosenthal but I've seen plenty of Renzo ... Read more »
THE ACADEMY: Famed Architects Renzo Piano And Zotan Pali Will Design Museum
Now add to that a bit of a face lift as award-winning architects Renzo Piano and Zoltan Pali have been chosen design the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Museum. "Renzo’s track record of creating iconic cultural landmarks combined with Zoltan’s success in transforming ... Read more »
Apre a Oslo il nuovo museo d'arte progettato da Renzo Piano OSLO, Norvegia, September 27, 2012 /
Il 29 settembre 2012 aprirà al pubblico l'Astrup Fearnley Museum, il nuovo museo d'arte contemporanea di Oslo, Norvegia, costato 90 milioni di euro e progettato da Renzo Piano. Il museo è già stato proclamato uno dei più straordinari nuovi musei di tutto il mondo. Situato in una ... Read more »
Irvine Sellar: Blue-sky thinker
Throughout the project, Sellar and the Shard's celebrated architect, Renzo Piano, have had to work hard to win over the sceptics. Pawing off a complaint from English Heritage and the Royal Parks Foundation that the giant wigwam of glass would cast both a literal and metaphoric shadow ... Read more »
The Shard opens
The glass building, built next to the River Thames, was designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano and is over 1,000ft high. The tower has 72 occupiable floors and a further 15 levels which make up the pointed spire. The 1,016ft (309.6m) skyscraper is joint-owned by the state of Qatar and ... Read more »
London's Tallest Building Officially Unveiled
" The name "The Shard" is derived from the architect, Renzo Piano's description of the development as a "shard of glass" during planning stages. Inspired by Canaletto's paintings of the Thames and the masts of the tall ships once anchored here, the idea was to create a kaleidoscope of a ... Read more »
Kimbell Art Museum To Unveil Renzo Piano Addition In November
Mon, May 6, 2013, 10:28 AM EDT - U.S. Markets close in 5 hrs 32 mins FORT WORTH, Texas, May 6, 2013 /CNW/ - Renzo Piano's highly anticipated expansion of Louis I. Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum will open to the public on Wednesday, November 27, 2013. The Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) ... Read more »
France property: Lyon hearted
The development, which includes Lyon’s contemporary arts museum, was designed by Renzo Piano, the Italian architect responsible for the Shard building in London. David Reid, originally from Sussex and now a television producer with his own production company, moved to Lyon 10 years ago ... Read more »
At the Enzo Ferrari Museum, Housing 2 Legacies
The new museum has had a somewhat uneasy relationship with Ferrari the automaker, whose attractions at Maranello include another museum, the factory and star architecture in the form of a wind tunnel by Renzo Piano. “We are like a stone in their shoe,” Mr. Morgante said. “We did it with ... Read more »
Changing Skyline: For the Barnes, some parallels at Boston museum
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, where a glassy addition designed by Renzo Piano has been attached to the Venetian-style original structure. NIC LEHOUX BOSTON - This city's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum may be as close in ... Read more »
Rome mixes contemporary architecture while keeping its focus on past
In addition to MAXXI, major new contemporary buildings in or near the center of Rome include the Ara Pacis Museum, designed by American architect Richard Meier and completed in 2006; the Auditorium Parco della Musica, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano and finished in 2002; and ... Read more »
London's Shard,Europe's tallest building
"It will be living 24 hours a day and intensify city life," the architect Renzo Piano promised in an earlier interview. "After a shower, it will be blue. In the evening it will become warmer and more red," he said. nazish7 is based in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, and is a Reporter ... Read more »
Building projects set to transform London
From Battersea Power Station in the south to the King’s Cross regeneration zone in the north, the fringes of zone 1 and the banks of the river Thames, London is being transformed by the world’s leading architects from Renzo Piano to Terry Farrell. Copyright The Financial Times Limited ... Read more »
LACMA draws up ambitious plans for a $650-million new look
Govan has overseen the completion of several major additions to the museum after the collapse of the Koolhaas plan — including two buildings on the west side of the LACMA campus by architect Renzo Piano, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum and the Resnick Pavilion. Those buildings and ... Read more »
Denise Scott Brown: Architecture favors 'lone male genius' over women
Their petition has been signed by more than 11,000 people at time of writing, including no fewer than nine Pritzker Prize laureates : Rem Koolhaas (2000), Wang Shu (2012), Zaha Hadid (2004), Richard Meier (1984), Rafael Moneo (1996), Renzo Piano (1998), Jacques Herzog and Pierre de ... Read more »
