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Renzo Piano's Landmark Tower Centerpiece of Mega-Development

The 620-m-tall Landmark Tower, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, will dominate Seoul's 3.4-million-sq-m multibuilding Yongsan International Business District.
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7 hours ago

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Interview: Renzo Piano on The Shard

As The Shard nears completion in London, here is the transcript of an interview conducted with architect Renzo Piano before work started on the 300 metre-high tower.  (more…
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5 days ago

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This week on Dezeen

  This week Dezeen has been all about skyscrapers, with towers by 15 of the world’s most famous architects for a new business district in Seoul plus a timelapse movie and interview with architect Renzo Piano as his 300 metre-high tower The Shard nears completion in London. (more…
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5 days ago

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Slideshow feature: Yongsan International Business District

Slideshow feature: this week we’ve run a series of stories on the Yongsan International Business District, a new commercial hub in Seoul, South Korea, that’s due for completion in 2024. Commissioned by South Korean developer DreamHub, the new district has been masterplanned by...
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6 days ago

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Movie: The Shard by Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Movie: this timelapse movie by architectural photographer Paul Raftery and director Dan Lowe shows the final stages of construction for London skyscraper The Shard, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. (more…
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1 week ago

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Renzo Piano beats OMA and Herzog & de Meuron for Selfridges

Renzo Piano Workshop is inline to design the new extension for Selfridges flagship store in London
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3 weeks ago

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Video: London Aerial / Jason Hawkes

Aerial photographer Jason Hawkes captures London’s hazy skyline in both day and night. Although still under construction, The Shard appears to already dwarf most to the city. The building is designed by Renzo Piano… and is slated to become the
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3 weeks ago

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Video: London Aerial / Jason Hawkes

Aerial photographer Jason Hawkes captures London’s hazy skyline in both day and night. Although still under construction, The Shard appears to already dwarf most to the city. The building is designed by Renzo Piano… and is slated to become the
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3 weeks ago

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Finalists announced for the Menil Collection Expansion

Prior to becoming a Pritzker laureate, Italian architect Renzo Piano was commissioned to design the Menil Collection… in a quiet inner-city neighborhood of Houston, Texas. Since celebrating its opening in 1987, the museum has expanded, adding Renzo’s second commission, the Cy
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1 month ago

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Finalists announced for the Menil Collection Expansion

Prior to becoming a Pritzker laureate, Italian architect Renzo Piano was commissioned to design the Menil Collection… in a quiet inner-city neighborhood of Houston, Texas. Since celebrating its opening in 1987, the museum has expanded, adding Renzo’s second commission, the Cy
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1 month ago

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Menil Drawing Institute Shortlist Announced

The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas has announced a shortlist for the new Menil Drawing Institute, which includes David Chipperfield Architects, Johnston Marklee, Tatiana Bilbao/mx.a, and SANAA. The building will be the largest freestanding space devoted to drawings. The competitors certainly ...
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1 month ago

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This week on Dezeen

This week a group of urban climbers revealed that they’d secretly scaled the 309-metre-high exterior of Renzo Piano’s London skyscraper the Shard and J. Mayer H. completed a crooked concrete police station that one reader thought was actually worth getting arrested for. Here at Dezeen...
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1 month ago

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Urban explorers scale Renzo’s 310-metre London Shard

A group of urban exploration enthusiasts have covertly climbed to the top of Renzo Piano’s £450 million shard skyscraper in London
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1 month ago

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Shard crowned with final steel frame

The final steel frame section has been fitted into place at the top of Renzo Piano’s Shard, bringing its height to 310m
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2 months ago

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In pictures: Tiny crane placed on top of Renzo Piano’s Londo

A compact mini-crane has been lifted 238 metres to the top of Renzo Piano’s almost complete Shard skyscraper in London
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3 months ago

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Video> Take a Fly-By Tour of Renzo Piano’s New Whitney Museu

Ever since Renzo Piano‘s design for the new Whitney Museum was unveiled back in 2008, we’ve been obsessed with just about anything we could find about the new boat of a museum perched along the High Line on Manhattan’s west side. AN alum Matt Chaban at the Observer spotted this ...
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4 months ago

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Video: Centre Georges Pompidou / Renzo Piano + Richard Roger

Unknown at the time, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers stunned French president Georges Pompidou with their radical proposal that won the competition to construct a cultural center in Paris. Unlike anything seen in the architecture world before, their high-tech…
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4 months ago

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Interview: Renzo Piano on Innovation / AR Innovators

In his interview with Renzo Piano, Rob Gregory of Architectural Review discusses architecture, responsibility and innovation within the field.  Piano talks about architecture is being a highly considered inquiry into the process of making because “architecture is more lasting and profou...
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4 months ago

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Opens New Wing Today / Renzo

The newly constructed wing for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, opens to the public today with a celebratory ribbon-cutting ceremony accompanied by the City of Boston’s Mayor Thomas M. Menino. Designed to preserve the…
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4 months ago

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Opens New Wing Today / Renzo

The newly constructed wing for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, opens to the public today with a celebratory ribbon-cutting ceremony accompanied by the City of Boston’s Mayor Thomas M. Menino. Designed to preserve the…
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4 months ago