Renzo Piano Building Workshop

A New Waterfront Enclave Expands Monaco’s Diminutive Footprint by 3 Percent

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:12:52 -0400

Master-planned by Valode & Pistre with landscaping by Michel Desvigne, Mareterra prioritizes public space.

Renzo Piano’s ‘Cube’ Lands Aside One of London’s Busiest Rail Hubs

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 09:08:29 -0400

Paddington Square, an 18-story mixed-use office building sheathed in glass, features generous public realm components.

Boca Raton’s Center for Arts & Innovation Shares Initial Concept for Renzo Piano–Designed Campus

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:29:38 -0400

The unveiling coincided with the opening of the retrospective exhibition ‘Renzo Piano and RPBW: Le Fil Rouge of Contemporary Architecture’ at the Boca Raton Museum of Art.

Renzo Piano Tapped to Design Landmark Creative Campus in Boca Raton, Florida

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 16:34:43 -0400

The Italian Pritzker winner’s firm was chosen for The Center for Arts and Innovation from a shortlist that included Ennead, OMA, and Foster + Partners.

Renzo Piano’s First Turkish Project, a Modern Art Museum, Opens in Istanbul

Fri, 05 May 2023 13:06:54 -0400

The waterfront building serves as new home to the country’s first institution dedicated to modern and contemporary art.

As Ukrainian Cultural Sites Are Destroyed, Russian Arts Groups Walk a Fine Line in Protesting

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 16:53:00 -0500

The V-A-C Foundation suspended cultural programming at its Renzo Piano-designed GES-2 arts center; other Russian cultural institutions are following suit.

2022 Renovation, Restoration, and Adaptive Reuse Projects

Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:10:00 -0500

Record highlights renovation, restoration, and adaptive reuse projects from a former power station in Moscow turned into a lively arts center by Renzo Piano Building Workshop to the sensitive resurrection of Carlo Scarpa’s Brion Memorial in Italy.

GES-2 House of Culture in Moscow

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:54:00 -0500

A former power plant for trams in Moscow is converted to an arts venue by Renzo Piano Building Workshop.

Renzo Piano Transforms a Moscow Power Station into a House of Culture

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 16:25:00 -0500

The Pritzker laureate’s art and performance center opens December 4th.

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures by Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Renzo Piano Building Workshop's Academy Museum of Motion Pictures spotlights L.A.'s storied movie industry.

The Forum Opens at Columbia's Manhattanville Campus

Mon, 24 Sep 2018 09:00:00 -0400

The third building by Renzo Piano Building Workshop has opened on the new $6.3 billion campus of Columbia University—an initiative 17 years in the making.

Tribunal de Paris by Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Thu, 01 Feb 2018 09:00:00 -0500

Towering on the edge of Paris, a new justice building presides over an urban transformation.

Renzo Piano to Design New David Zwirner Gallery in Chelsea

Thu, 11 Jan 2018 10:00:00 -0500

The announcement coincides with the gallery’s 25th anniversary.

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Unveils Concepts for Exhibition Spaces in New Renzo Piano-Designed Buildings

Wed, 27 Sep 2017 09:30:00 -0400

The Los Angeles museum, currently under construction, will house items from the Academy’s vast permanent holdings.

Columbia University’s Arts and Science Centers by Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Mon, 01 May 2017 08:00:00 -0400

Two buildings open on a new campus in upper Manhattan, with a promise to enhance the community.

Columbia Dedicates Renzo Piano and SOM-Planned Campus

goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0400

Monday, Columbia University dedicated a satellite campus on 17 acres in New York’s West Harlem neighborhood.

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center by Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Thu, 01 Sep 2016 08:11:00 -0400

The gift of a splendid complex and public park creates an oasis for the Greek people in austere times.

Valletta City Gate

Sun, 01 May 2016 08:10:00 -0400

The completion of Renzo Piano Building Workshop’s (RPBW) Valletta City Gate comes 30 years after the architect was first invited to remodel the main entrance to Malta’s walled capital.

Whitney Museum of American Art by Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Sat, 16 May 2015 12:00:00 -0400

After failed attempts to add on to its iconic uptown venue, the Whitney builds a new home in Manhattan that reaches out to its neighbors.

House in the Rockies

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0400

Renzo Piano never wanted to build a house. With a portfolio of museums, towers, and other award-winning buildings across the world, his mind was elsewhere.

Kimbell Art Museum Addition

Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:00:00 -0500

For the general public, the Kimbell Art Museum’s exalted reputation rests on the extraordinarily high quality of its small collection, with hundreds of firstrate pieces by Western painters and sculptors, and a growing cache of Asian and pre-Columbian work.

The Shard

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400

No matter where you are in London, the Shard stands out.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Extension

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:00:00 -0500

Once you get past the eye-popping turquoise green prepatinated copper of Renzo Piano's new 70,000-square-foot addition to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, you discover that the new wing echoes the older museum in its proportions, sleek lines, and taut planes.

Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:00:00 -0500

Charged with adding expansive and flexible exhibition space to the museum's campus, the Renzo Piano team—who were responsible for the neighboring Broad Contemporary Art Museum, completed in 2008—designed an open-plan pavilion large enough to accommodate large-scale works or several separate exhibitions simultaneously.

The Art Institute of Chicago'The Modern Wing

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Here we go again—another art museum, another building by Renzo Piano.

California Academy of Sciences

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Renzo Piano calls his new building for the California Academy of Sciences a “soft machine.”

California Academy of Sciences

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500

To support the expansive roof, RPBW designed a set of four masonry structures—one at each corner—incorporating two of the original academy’s Neoclassical limestone walls in the northeast structure and using poured concrete for the others.

The New York Times Building

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500

In the past few years, New York City has been valiantly trying to turn around its deserved reputation for treating innovative architecture like an exotic disease that should be stamped out by courageous developers, bankers, and government officials.