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Art Institute of Chicago
Modern Wing, Chicago, USA
2007-09
Art Institute of Chicago Modern Wing
photo : Andrew Campbell Photography
Art Institute of Chicago Modern Wing

Baby Shard : New London Bridge House - offices, London, UK
2006-

Central Saint Giles development, Oxford Street, London, UK
2008-
Central Saint Giles
photo © Nick Weall
Central Saint Giles

Daimler Financial Services Headquarters, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany
1994-97/98
Renzo Piano Building Partnership and Christoph Kohlbecker
Debis Building
photo © Adrian Welch
Debis Building

'Glass Worm' building - new Peek & Cloppenburg store, Cologne, Germany
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Glass Worm building
photo © webbaviation

Manhattanville redevelopment plan, Columbia University, New York, USA
2002-
Renzo Piano Building Workshop with SOM
Columbia University Campus
picture from RPBW
Columbia University Campus Plan

Music Auditoria, north Rome, Italy
2002-
Music Auditoria Rome
photo © Adrian Welch
Italian Music Auditoria building

Nemo, Centrum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1997
Nemo Amsterdam
image © Adrian Welch
Nemo Amsterdam

New York Times Company New Headquarters, New York, USA
2006
Renzo Piano Building Workshop with Fox & Fowle Architects
New York Times Company Headquarters
photo by David Sundberg/Esto
New York Times Headquarters

Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
1977; renovation 1995
Richard Rogers / Renzo Piano Architects
Pompidou Centre
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

Rue de Meaux Housing, Rue de Meaux, Paris, France
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.

SNFCC, Athens, Greece
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SNFCC Athens
SNFCC Athens

The Shard - London Bridge Tower, London, UK
projected completion 2009
The Shard
image by Hays Davidson and John Mclean
The Shard : 72 storeys

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
Maison Hermes, Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
2001
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

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

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Practice Information

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.

About Renzo Piano and RPBW
Renzo Piano was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1937, into a family of builders. He has maintained strong sentimental and cultural ties with his hometown. Genoa’s historic center, its port and its connection to the sea, and his father’s trade activities deeply influenced the young architect’s perspective. During his studies at the Milan Polytechnic, Renzo Piano worked at Franco Albini’s workshop. He graduated from the University in 1964 and began working with experimental lightweight structures and basic shelters.

Between 1965 and 1970, Piano traveled extensively to the United States and the United Kingdom. In 1971, he founded “Piano & Rogers” jointly with Richard Rogers, and together they won the competition for the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, where Piano currently lives. From the early 1970s until the 1990s, he collaborated with engineer Peter Rice and established “Atelier Piano & Rice” in 1977.

In 1981, Piano founded the “Renzo Piano Building Workshop”, employing a hundred people with offices in Paris, Genoa and New York.

Piano’s projects include, among many others, the Cultural Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; the regeneration of Genoa’s old port; the redevelopment of Potsdamer Platz in Berlin; the Kansai International Airport Terminal in Osaka; the Beyeler Foundation Museum in Basil; the Centre Paul Klee in Bern. His most recent projects, including the New York Times’ newly-established headquarters in New York City (2008) and the California Academy of Sciences’ sustainability-oriented compound (2008), are indisputable proof that Piano’s art matures, but his gaze remains adolescent and uncompromising. Renzo Piano’s many awards include the Pritzker Architecture Prize (1998); the Medaille d ’Or by the International Union of Architects (2002); and the Gold Medal by the American Institute of Architects (2008).



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Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Complete Works : Vol 4
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Winner of RIBA Gold Medal 1989

Renzo Piano Architect : Pritzker Prize Winner 1998

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

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