Archittetti Italia

Key Buildings:

UK:
London Bridge Tower - The Shard
London Bridge, southeast central London
projected completion 2009

image by Hays Davidson and John Mclean
72 storeys
Renzo Piano : The Shard

Central Saint Giles development, Oxford Street, London
2008-
46,000sqm in 3 buildings, 12 storeys
mixed-use development - office blocks, 109 apartments, public piazza
For Legal & General + Mitsubishi Estate Company
To replace former MoD building

Baby Shard
New London Bridge House - offices, southeast central London
2006-

FRANCE:
Pompidou Centre
Rue Beaubourg, Paris IVe
1971-76(77)
Richard Rogers / Renzo Piano Architects

Photo © Adrian Welch
Radical building for its time with service ducts expressed on the exterior and all structure glamourised and articulated externally where possible. The architectural realisation of some Archigram ideas, with escalators providing dynamism to the main west facade. Half of the plot was given over to a rectilinear square which again added dynamism to the architecture. Also known as the Beaubourg Centre or simply The Pompidou building.

Pompidou Centre

Pompidou Centre Renovation
1995

Rue de Meaux Housing
Rue de Meaux, Paris
1988-91
From the co-designer of the Pompidou Centre: tightly-detailed terracotta-tiled housing. Other Renzo Piano Paris buildings include Schlumberger Facilities in 1981, Bercy 2, Shopping Centre (Charenton Le Pont) in 1987, IRCAM Extension and Thomson Optronics Factory (Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines) both in 1988, Atelier Brancusi in 1992 and the renovation of the Pompidou Centre in 1995.

USA:
Manhattanville redevelopment plan, Columbia University, New York
2002-
Renzo Piano Building Workshop with SOM

Renzo Piano buildings : Columbia University Campus Plan
City Planning Commission considered the Manhattanville redevelopment proposals on 26 Nov 2007
6.8m sqft

New York Times Company New Headquarters
2006
Renzo Piano Building Workshop with Fox & Fowle Architects
Renzo Piano Building Workshop : New York Times Headquarters

ITALY:
Music Auditoria, north Rome
2002-

Photo © Adrian Welch
Italian building

HOLLAND:
Nemo, Centrum, Amsterdam
1997

Image © Adrian Welch
Dutch building


Renzo Piano Buildings (chronological):
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
1972-76
Schlumberger Renovation, Paris, France
1981-84
Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA
1982-86
IRCAM Extension, Paris, France
1988-89
Rue de Meaux Housing, Paris, France
1988-91
Kansai Airport Terminal, Osaka, Japan
1994
Nemo, Centrum, Amsterdam
1997
Cultural Centre, Nouméa, New Caledonia
1998
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
2003
High Museum of Art Expansion, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2006
'Glass Worm' building - new Peek & Cloppenburg store, Cologne, Germany
2006-
Peek & Cloppenburg also have worked with world-famous architects such as Richard Meier, Kleihues and Gottfried Böhm
The Morgan Library, New York, USA
2006-
New York Times - new offices, New York, USA
2007
52 storey tower
Boston Tower, USA
2007-
Music Complex, Rome, Italy
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Aurora Place, Sydney, Australia
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The Museum of Modern Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2007-
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA
2008
Broad Contemporary Art Museum – BCAM, Los Angeles, USA
2008


Renzo Piano Building Workshop : Boston skyscraper

High Museum of Art Atlanta orig. by Richard Meier Architects in 1983

Renzo Piano : American Buildings

Renzo Piano - Background to the architect
Renzo Piano was born in Genoa, Italy in 1937

Piano set up a partnership with Richard Rogers in 1970. Their work was part of
the seminal High-Tech architecture movement. Current buildings generally form
high quality contemporary responses.



Renzo Piano Book
Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Complete Works : Vol 4
Peter Buchanan
£15.14

London Architecture

London Skyscrapers

Winner of RIBA Gold Medal 1989

Padre Pio Church, S.Giovanni Rotondo
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Former collaborator : Richard Rogers - Pompidou Centre

Contemporary Architects



World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe

Renzo Piano Architect : Pritzker Prize Winner 1998

Renzo Piano : Book

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Renzo Piano buildings - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt

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