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

RPBW   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   United States   The new headquarters for The New York Times newspaper was commissioned via invited competition in 2000. RPBW’s winning design opens up a neglected corner of Manhattan opposite the Port Authority, with a 52-storey building whose themes of permeability

Renzo Piano   United States   The motto of the almost centenary California Academy of Sciences, ‘Exploring, explaining, and sustaining life of Earth,’ inspired the design of its new headquarters, built to replace the old ensemble of buildings – severely damaged in the 1989 earthq

Renzo Piano   United States   The new Modern Wing for the Art Institute of Chicago is not only the most ambitious extension undertaken by the institution, but it also turns this museum into the second largest in the United States. Consisting of two pavilions connected by a large

Renzo Piano   United Kingdom   The London Bridge Tower, also known as the Shard, is a 72-public storey, mixed-use tower located beside London Bridge Station on the south bank of the River Thames. This project was a response to the urban vision of London Mayor Ken Livingstone and t

Renzo Piano   United Kingdom   Colloquially known as The Rookery, London’s St. Giles district was for centuries one of the poorest neighborhoods in central London. The construction in the 1950s of a large government complex was meant to bring positive change, but the opposite happ

Renzo Piano   Italy   The Quartiere delle Albere district in Trento used to be the site of a former Michelin factory. This site shares many characteristics with the urban fabric: the clear hierarchy of the design, its functional stratification, and an overall similarity i

Renzo Piano   United States   The scope of this project was to fuse the scattered buildings of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) into a cohesive campus with new public spaces, new exhibition spaces and a strong visual identity for the museum. The first phase introduced the

Renzo Piano   United States   Located in the vicinity of the Emerald Necklace Park at 280 The Fenway in Boston, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum opened to the public in 1903. Reflecting the architecture of a 15th-century Venetian palace, the four-story masonry building is orga

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

Piano’s Bridge in Genoa

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

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.

François Chaslin   The Cité Judiciaire serves to centralize a vast network of courthouses in a tiered tower that rises a hundred and sixty meters, and is already an icon of the new neighborhoods of Paris. 

The recent architecture of large institutional headquarters has enriched the serious and cold canon of modernity with new elements linked to history, technique, and work organization. 

El País   Luis Fernández-Galiano   The meeting of a fisherman and a sailor has produced a miracle in Santander. Back in 2010, Emilio Botín, banker and fisherman, commissioned Renzo Piano, architect and sailor, to build an art center in Santander. Seven years later, the careening volum

Renzo Piano recently inaugurated the new Palais de Justice of Paris, a project that was undertaken to address the increasing shortage of space in the famous building on the Île de la Cité. The tower, raised by virtue of an agreement between public an

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

Renzo Piano   Genoa  2019  
Fondazione Renzo Piano   - 212 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