Renzo Piano   Russia   Built between 1904 and 1908 in Bálchug (Bolotny óstrov), a river island in the heart of Moscow, GES-2 was a power station. The old plant is now a space conceived as an experience of going from visual to performing arts, via a welcoming civic space. T

Renzo Piano   Uganda   On the shore of Lake Victoria, a pediatric hospital seeks to provide medical care to young residents of the area while serving as a center for the training of local physicians and nurses. Equipped with three operating rooms and eighty beds, the hospi

Renzo Piano   United States   The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) of the United States, which year after year extols Hollywood movies with its Oscar awards, inaugurates its much awaited Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on 30 September. The institution will in

Renzo Piano   Italy   Renzo Piano donRenzo Piano donó a Génova, su ciudad natal, el diseño para reconstruir el viaducto Polcevera, también conocido como el puente Morandi, tras el colapso que sufrió el 14 de agosto de 2018, causando 43 muertos. El nuevo puente se inaugura

Renzo Piano   United States   On the famous Miracle Mile of Los Angeles, Renzo Piano is finishing the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, a project of almost 28,000 square meters on the campus of the LACMA, next to the three buildings designed by the Genoan architect to extend the

Renzo Piano   United States   Renzo Piano has completed his third construction for Columbia University's new Manhattanville Campus in Harlem, which with three other academic buildings is part of the first phase of the masterplan that the Italian architect drew up in collaboration

Renzo Piano   Italy   On 17 May 2013 a ship, the Jolly Nero, leaving the harbor knocked down the control tower, killing nine people. Rising on a new spot, the replacement – the Torre Piloti – has two parts. One volume contains the rooms for staff, offices, parking spaces,

Renzo Piano   Turkey   The Istanbul Modern Museum in the historic Galata Port district of Istanbul is located on the waterfront of the western bank of the Bosphorus, facing the Sultan Ahmet quarter. A new building will replace the existing one located between the old city

Renzo Piano   Italy   The seed of the project was the idea of a building rising from the ground to create the picture of children – leading characters here – living in a bright, cheerful space set in mid-air, as if on treetops. The idea of ‘lifting’ is closely associated

Renzo Piano   Russia   Located in Moscow, the GES-2 is a magnificent historical power station built between 1904 and 1908. The project consists in the reconversion of this building in a space conceived as a very articulated experience going from visual arts to performing a

Renzo Piano   Lebanon   El objetivo del nuevo museo es proteger y divulgar la historia de la ciudad de Beirut. Se sitúa entre la plaza de los Mártires —un enclave que representa el pasado reciente de la capital libanesa— y el sitio arqueológico del ‘Montículo’ —origen histó

Renzo Piano   France    The 64,000 square meter campus project for 3.000 students at Université Paris-Saclay is composed of four architectural units which border a park measuring over a hectare. This garden acts as the vibrant center of the different surrounding buildings,

Renzo Piano   Uganda   Emergency’s new Center for Pediatric Surgery in Uganda, south of the city of Kampala, on the north shore of Lake Victoria, is not only a hospital of excellence, but a building that enriches the area in a number of ways. Emergency’s hospitals provide

Renzo Piano   United States   LACMA’s campus is undergoing a major expansion, including an ambitious array of new building projects as part of a ten-year program called the ‘Transformation’. Conceived as part of this transformation, the last phase of the LACMA’s growth, currently

Renzo Piano   France   The citadel is a pentagonal defensive fort, built at the beginning of the 17th century. It occupies a key area of the city of Amiens, between the historic city center and the northern quarters. Occupied by the army, who forbade public access until 19

Renzo Piano   France   Since the Middle Ages, Parisian justice has been dispensed from the famous building that surrounds the Sainte-Chapelle on the Île de la Cité. However, over the years an increasing shortage of space has resulted in a good many offices having to be loc

Renzo Piano   Italy   The Auditorium in L’Aquila was built as a temporary substitute to replace the Castello Spagnolo concert hall, gravely damaged in the 2009 earthquake. The structure is an ensemble of three pure volumes – a trio of cubes set at seemingly random angles,

Renzo Piano   Greece   Como parte del complejo de la Fundación Stavros Niarchos, la Ópera Nacional de Grecia se organiza siguiendo al pie de la letra los dictados de un ‘teatro a la italiana’ tradicional. 

Renzo Piano   United States   Currently under way, Phase I construction of the Manhattanville Campus of Columbia University involves the triangular area located between 125th Street and 130th in New York. Science, art, communications, or energy are each represented, and they are

Renzo Piano   United States   Con su estética fabril y sus guiños constructivistas, el Museo Whitney se hace eco de su singular entorno urbano y es quizá la mejor obra de la trayectoria reciente de Piano.

Renzo Piano   United States   Since the opening of Louis Kahn’s building in 1972, the Kimbell Museum has been enlarging its collection, and with that, its needs have increased. It eventually became necessary to raise a pavilion that would accommodate a spacious gallery for tempor

Renzo Piano   United States   Harvard University’s three art museums – the Fogg, the Busch-Reisinger and the Sackler – are being consolidated into one reorganized and upgraded facility, Harvard Art Museums, on the current site of the Fogg Museum on Quincy Street. The restored his

Renzo Piano   Norway   Situado en Tjuvholmen, un nuevo barrio cultural al suroeste de Oslo, el Museo Astrup Fearnley de Arte Moderno forma parte de un complejo donde tienen también cabida un edificio de oficinas, un parque público de esculturas, una playa y un paseo maríti

Arquitectura Viva and its director, Luis Fernández-Galiano, understand and regret the discomfort caused by the series Conversations. Filmed between 2013 and 2018, this documentary series of Fundación Arquia, now being streamed on Netflix, was left un

Along with the 6,800 Russian professionals who signed a call for peace quickly censored by Putin’s government, architects, artists, and designers from everywhere join hands in expressing their disapproval of armed conflict and their solidarity with U

If every epoch has its own idea of history and thus builds its own museums, ours already has one which exemplarily captures the aspirations of the 20th century: the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which Renzo Piano has just completed in Hollywood

Piano in LA

The Guardian   Joanna Partridge   Google has announced a $1bn (£871m) deal to buy the London development Central Saint Giles, calling the move a show of confidence in the return to more office working. The US tech firm currently rents space in the brightly coloured development design

Luis Alemany   Imagine that Renzo Piano is a cell. The nucleus of his DNA would be an image of the shipyards of the city of Genoa; if the cell were Norman Foster, the helix would be the sequence of a science fiction cartoon strip; and if the cell were the duo Jacqu

The Richest   Vrushali Padia   Architects who become popular for making iconic monuments make big bucks off their skills. A combination of three disciples of engineering, environmental science, and art, Architecture is an influential career. As the countries continue to grow and h

The Economist   Gino Strada believed health care was a human right. People often wondered why Gino Strada led the life he did. With his skills as a heart-and-lung surgeon, trained not only in his native Milan but at Stanford and Groote Schuur, in South Africa, he co

A philosopher who loved architecture, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, wrote in the year 1822 that making holes in the earth was perhaps more natural than raising poles or pillars on the surface, and that it perhaps made much more sense to think of the

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Carlo Piano calls his father Renzo ‘the Explorer’ and has imagined an eight-month journey with him on an Italian Navy ship, doing port of call in many of the cities where Piano has built, and both take the adventure as a search for Plato’s mythical A

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Renzo Piano   My first experiences as an architect were threaded together by a search for lightness. It’s very simple. When you are young, you try to do the opposite of what your father’s been doing. My father was making buildings with sand, concrete, and bricks.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Memory speaks in these ten interviews with masters. I borrow from Vladimir Nabokov’s autobiography the title for the presentation of these conversations, transcribed as monologues to place the focus on the protagonists, whose voices I hope to have re

On 28 September 2020, Spain’s postal service officially issued a stamp with an image of the Wanda Metropolitan stadium, home to the Atlético de Madrid football club and a work of Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos. The second stamp of the series went into circ

Alberto Ballesteros   Like the children of Oedipus, the San Giorgio Bridge is the fruit of tragedy. That of 14 August 2018, when the Morandi Bridge collapsed, killing 43 and leaving hundreds homeless. The destruction dramatically cut two neighborhoods apart and eliminated

Jacques Herzog For a young architect at the beginning of his career it is a challenging moment to see the widely admired work of established colleagues, often with a mixture of disdain and admiration. For my generation this moment was in the 1980s, a

The Guardian   Kim Willsher   The Pompidou Centre, one of Paris’s top cultural attractions and home to Europe’s biggest modern art collection, is to close from 2023 for four years of renovations, France’s culture minister has said. Designed by architects Renzo Piano and Richard R

The tragedy of 14 August 2018, when 43 people were killed by the collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa, was a heavy blow to the city, to Italy, and to the prestige of Italian engineering. So the recent inauguration of the rebuilt infrastructure – t

Piano’s Bridge in Genoa

youtube.com   On 3 August, the city of Genoa inaugurated its new bridge, designed by Renzo Piano to reconstruct the Polcevera Viaduct, also known as the Morandi Bridge, which collapsed on 14 August 2018, killing 43.

Corriere della Sera   Aldo Cazzullo   L’architetto: mia moglie si è inventata la figura del buttadentro e mi vieta di uscire, faccio teleconferenze con il Giappone e l’America. Lo smart working interessante? Col piffero: se non trai ispirazione dalla realtà, se non hai contatti con le pe

pdf   ‘Art of Construction: the importance of structural details’ is the theme of the fourth international competition for the opportinity to travel around the world visiting works of Renzo Piano.

The collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa killed 43 people and exposed deficiencies in both its design and its maintenance. It was a big blow to Italian politics and engineering, and there has been a clear endeavor to make amends through a fast-tra

Luis Fernández-Galiano   London’s Royal Academy houses a retrospective on Renzo Piano which is announced on the outside with a ‘gerberette’ from the Centre Pompidou.

Lia Piano   L' ospedale dei bambini, Entebbe, Uganda

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Textos y dibujos

Lia Piano   Barcelona  2020  
Seix-Barral   - 224 Pages 

Renzo Piano Carlo Piano   A journey in search of beauty

Lia Piano Elena Spadavecchia   Ponte Genova San Giorgio

Renzo Piano   Genoa  2019  
Fondazione Renzo Piano   - 212 Pages 

Renzo Piano Richard Rogers   Genoa  2017  
Fondazione Renzo Piano   - 248 Pages 

Renzo Piano   Londres   2018  
Royal Academy of Arts   - 160 Pages 

Lorenzo Ciccarelli   Master and Beginnings

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2017  
Fundación Arquia    - 124 Pages 

Francesco Dal Co   Renzo Piano, Rchard Rogers and the Makin of a Modern Monument

Lia Piano   Génova  2014  
Fondazione Renzo Piano   - 196 Pages 

Philip Jodidio   Cologne  2014   - 648 Pages 

Francesco Dal Co   Milan  2014  
Mondadori Electa   - 1084 Pages 

Lia Piano   London Bridge Tower

Renzo Piano   California Academy of Sciences

Premio Fondazione Renzo Piano 2011

Milan  2009  
Abitare   - 226 Pages 

Marc Petitjean   Barcelona  2010  
Fundación Caja de Arquitectos  

The Menil Collection

Centre Culturel Jean-Marie Tjibaou

Fondation Beyeler

Peter Buchanan   Complete Works. Volume 5