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Sep 10, 2024 · Renzo Piano, Italian architect best known for his high-tech public spaces, particularly his design (with Richard Rogers) for the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. He went on to design a number of museums as well as some of the world’s most-recognized buildings, including the Shard in London.
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His portable pavilion for IBM (1983–1986) was an example; designed with Peter Rice, of a lightweight portable tunnel for expositions. It composed of a series of pyramids of polycarbonate supported by a wooden frame, and could be transported in a truck.
- The Shard, London (2012) For Londoners, the Shard is one of Piano’s most recognisable buildings. Reaching up 72 storeys above London Bridge, the mixed-use tower has been designed in response to its uses – with larger floor plates at the bottom for offices, restaurants and hotel in the centre, and private apartments and a viewing gallery to the top of the building where its form is narrowest.
- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1977) Piano and Richard Rogers RA were relatively unknown when in 1971, they saw off competition from 680 other architectural teams to win the high-profile job to design Paris’ new contemporary arts centre.
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015) Sat between the Hudson River and New York’s High Line, Piano’s Whitney Museum of American Art was designed to bring the gallery, which had been scattered in various buildings after outgrowing its Marcel Breuer-designed Madison Avenue home, back together on one site.
- The Menil Collection, Houston (1987) Piano’s first building in the USA houses the art collection of Dominique and John de Menil. Alongside spaces designed to house their collection of ancient, African and surrealist modern art, the building also includes a picture frame workshop, a studio for restoration and study, and a winter garden.
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- Centre George Pompidou, Paris, 1977. The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris revolutionized museum design. The young team of British architect Richard Rogers and Italian architect Renzo Piano won the design competition — much to their own surprise.
- Porto Antico di Genova,1992. For a crash course in Renzo Piano architecture, visit the old port in Genoa, Italy to find all elements of this architect's design — beauty, harmony and light, detail, a gentle touch to the environment, and architecture for the people.
- Kansai Airport Terminal, Osaka, 1994. Kansai International is one of the largest air terminals in the world. When Piano first visited the site for the Japan's new airport, he had to travel by boat from Osaka harbor.
- NEMO, Amsterdam, 1997. The NEMO National Center for Science and Technology is another water-related project by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Built on a small slip of land in the complex waterways of Amsterdam, Netherlands, the museum design aesthetically fits into the environment as it appears as a giant, green ship's hull.
Nov 26, 2019 · Renzo Piano designed one of high-tech architecture's seminal buildings – the Centre Pompidou. We profile the Italian architect who was a key figure in the high-tech architecture...
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Oct 4, 2018 · Famous for The Shard among many other iconic designs, the Italian architect Renzo Piano describes his philosophy and his endless search for beauty.
Jul 14, 2019 · Renzo Piano (born September 14, 1937) is a Pritzker Prize Laureate, an architect known for his broad range of iconic projects that blend architecture and engineering. From a sports stadium in his native Italy to a cultural center in the south Pacific, Piano's architecture exhibits futuristic design, a sensitivity to the environment, and ...
