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

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

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

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

Lorenzo Ciccarelli   Forty Days Journey Discovering the Architecture of RPBW

Lia Piano   L' ospedale dei bambini, Entebbe, Uganda

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Textos y dibujos

Lia Piano   Barcelona  2020  
Seix-Barral   - 224 Pages 

Carlo Piano Renzo 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