Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Italy   The new bridge over the Polcevera is a strategic junction for Genoa, Liguria, and the whole of Italy. Following the collapse of the Morandi bridge in 2018, its rapid reconstruction aims to become a model for the renovation of Italian infrastructures

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   France   The new Pathé complex proposes Paris as European capital of cinema, bringing together production and distribution under one roof. The project involves a complete renovation of the historic Paramount complex – built in 1929 by Auguste Bluysen in art d

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Italy   The project idea is that of a building raised off the ground to inhabit a light, glowing space with the eyes of the young residents – key protagonists of the project – level with the tree tops. The idea of ‘alleviating’ comes from the same root as ‘l

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   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, but due to an increasing shortage of space its offices were scattered across the city. The new law courts, b

Renzo Piano Building Workshop Adamson Associates Architects   United Kingdom   Next to busy Paddington Square in London, this mixed-use building contains offices, shops, and a variety of bars and cafés, all of it crowned with a terrace and a restaurant commanding views of the city. A 50x50x50-meters cube raised on a podium of p

G124 Renzo Piano   Italy   The lack of facilities and trees had turned Parco dei Salici into a run-down place in disuse. Communication with the neighbors’ association now in charge of its management was an essential part in the redevelopment of the space, where now all so

G124 Renzo Piano   Italy   Though it is a pleasant green space, Parco XXII Aprile is in Crocetta, one of the most conflictive neighborhoods in Modena. This intervention aims to redefine small new spaces for leisure and for reunion that can gradually reactivate social life in t

G124 Renzo Piano   Italy   Despite being one of the most populated neighborhoods in the city, Commenda Est only has one plaza. The project exploits the potential of several empty spaces to join them and create a quality plaza at the service of the area’s multiple realities...

G124 Renzo Piano   Italy   The Affectivity and Maternity Module is a gathering space that replaces the conventional visiting rooms, anodyne and surveilled, for female inmates. This temporary construction of a family unit recreates the domestic dimension to favor future social

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Switzerland   The organization that operates the world’s largest particle physics laboratory has opened a facility for scientific education and outreach, composed of several blocks pierced by a raised walkway.

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Turkey   At the edge of the medieval Galata district, facing the Bosphorus, a building with industrial airs has replaced the obsolete facilities of what was the country’s first museum of contemporary art.

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Switzerland   As part of its mission to engage the public in science, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (known by its French acronym, CERN) is launching the Science Gateway, a new facility for scientific education and outreach. The purpose of the proj

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   France   In dialogue with the grand courthouse building next to it, the new seat of the law bar association completes the judicial complex that has activated the peripheral Batignolles district. A metro station under the site made it necessary to dispense wit

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Italy   Famous for its cutting-edge treatments, a medical center in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh will be expanding its facilities to provide healthcare services to all Sicilians. The hospital facilities take up an unobstructed, permeable gro

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   France   The compact campus envisioned to go up over an old Citroën factory will seal the merger of two hospitals in the suburbs of Paris, and serve as a center for medical university practicums. Conceived as a superposition of neutral trays that are easily a

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Greece   Como en los otros dos centros de la iniciativa, la configuración en alas longitudinales maximiza la apertura al exterior para garantizar luz y ventilación natural en las habitaciones y en las salas de operación. As in the initiative’s other two cente

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Greece   An altogether new building replaces an obsolete clinic that has been operating since the 1950s and will have the space and means to provide more specialized medical departments. In a firm commitment to sustainability, Greek hospitals will have near-z

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Greece   Replacing the scattered health infrastructure of the city, a cutting-edge health center appears in the woods on the outskirts, and patients will benefit from the natural surroundings as they heal. Komotini will be the first of three hospitals carried

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   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 Building Workshop   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 Building Workshop   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 Building Workshop   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 Building Workshop   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

More than six decades and one hundred works built on four continents attest to the extensive and prolific career of Renzo Piano at the helm of his ‘Building Workshop.’ The fourth monograph devoted to the oeuvre of Renzo Piano Building Workshop contai

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Son of a modest builder, the works of which he visited since he was a child, Renzo Piano grew up fascinated by the magic of building as well as the magic of making ships in the port. Educated by construction and the docks, he decided to study archite

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Do you know who wrote this? On 7 August 2021, Renzo Piano sends me a picture of the laconic interior of his refuge in the Alps, another of the bucolic view from his window, and a third of a yellowish press cutting with lots of underlines. Can it be a

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The exquisite exhibition of Renzo Piano in London’s Royal Academy was more oriented towards the cognoscente than the layperson. Architects already familiar with the work of the Genoa master enjoyed the sober presentation of sixteen essential building

Fulvio Irace   At the venerable age of masters, Renzo Piano continues to sail over the waves of a success that has hardly any equal in the history of contemporary architecture, both in the last century and this one, once again proving Picasso’s paradox true: “It ta

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The complete oeuvre of Renzo Piano is clustered in a magic island. He has often dreamed of sailing the seas in search of Atlantis, but while that day comes he has gathered more than a hundred of his works on an island that we celebrate here borrowing

Alberto Pieltain   “Travel is discovery, travel is life. When you set out on your travels, you look for one thing and find another. A journey is a bit like going to some big library and looking for a book. It’s true that you’re looking for one book, but while you’re se

Edoardo Narne   “You cannot change the world, but you can do small things that can change someone’s life.” This is one of Renzo Piano’s maxims, so when in 2013 he was appointed Senator for Life by the then Italian president Giorgio Napolitano, he did not hesitate t

In line with the 21st International Architecture Week (2024), the Madrid Institute of Architects (COAM) presents ‘Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Le Fil Rouge’ until 12 January 2025. The concept of this traveling show is light and modular, designed to

Lorenzo Ciccarelli   The more famous a building is, the more it is wrapped in myths and clichés, and the more we gain from those who take pains to delve into its history. The Centre Pompidou (1971-1977) is one of the iconic constructions of the 20th century. It helped re

“In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.” What the young Jean Cocteau wrote in relation to Les Six may well also apply to Norman Foster: after six decades of raising buildings all over the world, numerous master

60 Years of Invention

At the age of 85, Renzo Piano is not one of those masters who take on a late style, and who through it break with their previous output to become daring. The Genoan’s career has been a meditated but constant move forward, and he has stayed true to hi

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Do you know who wrote this? On 7 August 2021, Renzo Piano sends me a picture of the laconic interior of his refuge in the Alps, another of the bucolic view from his window, and a third of a yellowish press cutting with lots of underlines. Can it be a

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

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Lia Piano   Genoa  2023  
Fondazione Renzo Piano   - 192 Pages 

Lia Piano   Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Le fil rouge

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Luis Fernández-Galiano   Textos y dibujos

Lia Piano   Barcelona  2020  
Seix-Barral   - 224 Pages 

Carlo Piano Renzo Piano   A journey in search of beauty

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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 

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