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Renzo Piano Buildings Buildings + Designs by RPBW, alphabetical: Art Institute of Chicago Modern Wing, Chicago, USA 2009 photo : Andrew Campbell Photography Art Institute of Chicago Modern Wing Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway 2013 Astrup Fearnley Museet Aurora Place, Sydney, Australia - Baby Shard : New London Bridge House - offices, London, UK 2006-12 Broad Contemporary Art Museum - BCAM, Los Angeles, USA 2008 Boston Tower, USA 2007- California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA 2008 Central Saint Giles development, Oxford Street, London, UK 2009 photo © Nick Weall Central Saint Giles Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 1976 photograph © Rebecca Breun Pompidou Centre Cultural Centre, Nouméa, New Caledonia 1998 Daimler Financial Services Headquarters, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany 1998 Renzo Piano Building Partnership and Christoph Kohlbecker photo © Adrian Welch Debis Building '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 photo © webbaviation High Museum of Art Expansion, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 2006 IRCAM Extension, Paris, France 1988-89 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA 2012 Renzo Piano Building Workshop © Nic Lehoux / Renzo Piano Building Workshop Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston Kansai Airport Terminal, Osaka, Japan 1994 LACMA Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion, Los Angeles, USA 2010 image from LACMA LACMA Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion Manhattanville redevelopment plan, Columbia University, New York, USA 2002- Renzo Piano Building Workshop with SOM picture from RPBW Columbia University Campus Plan Maison Hermes, Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan 2001 Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA 1982-86 The Morgan Library, New York, USA 2006- The Museum of Modern Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2007- Music Complex, Rome, Italy - photo © Adrian Welch Italian Music Auditoria building Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, USA 2003 Nemo, Centrum, Amsterdam 1997 image © Adrian Welch Nemo Amsterdam New York Times - new offices, New York, USA 2007 Renzo Piano Building Workshop with Fox & Fowle Architects photo by David Sundberg/Esto New York Times Headquarters Padre Pio Church, S.Giovanni Rotondo - Rue de Meaux Housing, 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. Schlumberger Renovation, Paris, France 1981-84 The Shard - London Bridge Tower, London, UK 2012 photo © Nick Weall The Shard SNFCC, Athens, Greece - SNFCC Athens More Renzo Piano projects online soon Renzo Piano : main page on the architects

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ReRenzo Piano Building Workshop - Background to this famous Italian architects studio

Renzo Piano was born in Genoa, Italy in 1937

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

Projects by Renzo Piano 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 Renzo Piano’s art matures, but his gaze remains adolescent and uncompromising. Awards for Renzo Piano 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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