https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib en-us 2017-05-10 19:13:38 UTC 2026-03-26 04:36:57 UTC hello@padlet.com anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171103862 Renzo Piano, born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect and engineer. ]]> 2017-05-10 19:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171103862 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171104702 In 1971 Piano and Richard Rogers, in collaboration with the Italian architect Gianfranco Franchini, competed with the major architectural firms in the United States and Europe, and were awarded the commission for the most prestigious project in Paris, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the new French national museum of 20th century art.]]> 2017-05-10 19:21:36 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171104702 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171106138 In 1977 Renzo Piano started a new collaboration with engineer Peter Rice, who had assisted in the design of the Pompidou Center. Their first major building was the Menil Collection, in art museum for the art collector Dominique de Menil. The chief requirements of the owner for this building was to make the maximum use of natural light in the interiors. Piano wrote,]]> 2017-05-10 19:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171106138 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171107463 2017-05-10 19:35:14 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171107463 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171109331  For the Fiat factory, he preserved the enormous main structure, including its famous oval test track for automobiles on the roof, but added new structures, including a concert hall beneath the building, a heliport, and a glass domed conference center on the roof. He continued his modifications and additions over two decades; without destroying the historic core of the building.]]> 2017-05-10 19:44:22 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171109331 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171110068 Piano and Rice projected a new airport to be constructed on an artificial island in the port of Osaka, Japan. The main terminal he designed was extremely long (1.7 kilometers), with a very low profile, so that the controllers in the control tower could always see the aircraft on the runways. The frequent earthquakes in the Japanese islands required special building techniques; the structure is mounted on hydraulic joints which adjust to movements of the earth. The long, curving roof is covered with 82,000 panels of stainless steel, which reflect the sunlight, an is supported by arches 83 meters long, which give a feeling of openness.]]> 2017-05-10 19:48:25 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171110068 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171110843 The Fondation Beyeler is a private art museum built for the art collection of Ernst Beyeler who wanted to inspire tranquility, with white walls, light-colored wooden floors, and natural light. The wall separating the museum from the neighboring road constructed of porphry stone from Patagonia.]]> 2017-05-10 19:52:32 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171110843 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171112043 The Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre is designed to display the culture of the Kanak people. The project uses a combination of traditional and modern material; local wood, along with glass and aluminum. The complex is located on a narrow peninsula in a lagoon with prevailing winds. Piano designed a series of curved wooden screens to protect the exposition structures, then three "villages" of structures; one for welcome and exhibitions space; one for an auditorium and media center; and one for service functions.]]> 2017-05-10 19:58:08 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171112043 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171112824 Potsdamer Platz is a historic square in Berlin, which had been largely destroyed during World-II, then divided by the Berlin Wall . When a major reconstruction was commenced in 1990. Piano was selected to design the new buildings on five of the fifteen sites of the project, with the requirement that the buildings have roofs of copper, and facades of clear glass and materials of a baked earth color.]]> 2017-05-10 20:02:31 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171112824 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171113772 2017-05-10 20:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171113772 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171114708 2017-05-10 20:12:41 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171114708 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171115725 Aurora Place is composed of two towers, an eighteen-story residential building next to a forty-one story office building with different facades but similar metal and glass sunscreens on the roofs. The lower tower was an early example of the luxury high-rise residential buildings by star architects in the center large cities which became very popular in the early 21st century.]]> 2017-05-10 20:17:55 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171115725 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171116236 The Maison Hermès in the Ginza commercial district of Tokyo is the flagship store in Japan of the French luxury brand. The building is ten stories high, with three floors underground, and includes space for expositions and for a small museum on the history of the firm.]]> 2017-05-10 20:21:23 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171116236 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171117047 The Auditorium Niccolo Paganini is a concert hall constructed inside a former sugar mill in the historic center of the city of Parma]]> 2017-05-10 20:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171117047 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171117483 The Parco della Musica is the complex of music venues located in the Rome neighborhood which hosted the 1960 Summer Olympics. The park has three theaters, the largest with 2800 seats; when completed it was the largest symphonic concert hall in Europe.]]> 2017-05-10 20:29:04 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171117483 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171118108 The building is very simple in form, like his early Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, and does not distract from the sculptures within; six walls of travertine marble with a glass ceiling that filters the light define five long galleries, while outside a sunken sculpture garden is placed four or five meters below the street level, away sheltered from noise giving the appearance of an overgrown archeological excavation.]]> 2017-05-10 20:33:40 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171118108 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171118687 It was designed in large part to protect the fragile drawings of Paul Klee from sunlight. It housed in a series galleries resembling rolling hills in the Swiss countryside. Piano explained that the shape of the galleries was inspired by naval architecture and the hulls of ships, which were adapted to the form of waves as his building was adapted to the landscape.]]> 2017-05-10 20:37:36 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171118687 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171118984  Piano's project added four new structures; a pavilion for exhibitions, a gallery for special collections, a building for offices, and a dormitory for the Atlanta College Of Art, creating 16,000 meters of additional space. Both the new building and the original building are a gleaming white. A glass bridge with two levels connects the main pavilion with the original part of the museum.]]> 2017-05-10 20:39:26 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171118984 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171119507 Piano extensively renovated the existing structures and a built a new building the same height as the historic building, with a simple rectangual facade that complemented it. He also added a six-meter cube as a small exhibit space, an underground auditorium with 199 seats, and a glass-walled atrium which united all the parts, old a new.]]> 2017-05-10 20:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171119507 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171119922 The New York Times Building at the corner of 8th Avenue and Times Square in New York City was under construction at the time of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Its completion was seen as symbol of the continued faith in the future of skyscrapers in New York. Piano's design was chosen after competition whose entrants included projects by Norman Foster, Frank Gehry and Cesar Pelli.]]> 2017-05-10 20:46:28 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171119922 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171120170 In 1989, after their old museum buildings were damaged by an earthquake, the trustees of the California Academy of Sciences decided to rebuild their entire complex of twelve buildings, including an aquarium, planetarium, and a museum of Natural History, located in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Piano's plan called for "a group of volumes under a single roof, a little like a village." The roof itself, 1.5 hectares in area, was covered with vegetation, and blends with the surrounding park.]]> 2017-05-10 20:48:40 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171120170 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171120453 With its construction of glass, steel and white stone, the new wing is carefully harmonized with the old structure, and, like his other art museums, makes maximum use of natural light. A horizontal sunscreen on the roof, nicknamed the "flying carpet", is a graceful update of his rooftop art museum on the Lingotto factory in Turin. ^[30] He also designed a minimalist 620-foot (190 m) steel bridge connecting the sculpture terrace of the museum to Millennium Park.]]> 2017-05-10 20:51:02 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171120453 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171121047 The Central Saint Giles at the extreme end of Oxford Street in London (2002–2010) is a complex composed of 56 luxury apartments, 53 less-expensive apartments, and 37,000 square meters of offices grouped around a public squad with shops and restaurants, covering 7000 square meters.]]> 2017-05-10 20:55:51 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171121047 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171121388 The Shard, built over the underground station of London Bridge, is sixty-six stories and 305 meters high, which made it, when completed in 2012, the tallest skyscraper in Europe. (In 2017, it was the tallest building in the European Union but was surpassed height by three towers in Moscow). Inside, it contains luxury residences and a hotel, along with along with offices, shops, restaurants, and cultural centers It has a wide base and a split pinnacle point which seems to disappear into the clouds]]> 2017-05-10 20:58:47 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171121388 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171121652 Piano was commissioned to design a "transformation" of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; for this project he built a new building the Broad Museum of Contemporary Art (BCAM) (2008), with 5574 square meters of space; the BP Grand Entrance, an entrance pavilion with 750 square meters of space, and the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion (2010). The facade of the BCAM is concrete covered with plaques of cream-colored Italian travertine, harmonizing with the older buildings of the museum complex, but added distinctive Piano touches.]]> 2017-05-10 21:01:16 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171121652 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171121954 The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, Norway (2006–2012) was designed to revive an old port and industrial area southwest of the center of Oslo with an art museum and offices, and to provide a destination and attraction on the edge of the picturesque fjord. The project has three buildings, two museum buildings and an office building, under a single glass roof, which covers 6000 square meters. The construction materials include both steel and wood beams. A canal and walkway connect the museum with another area under development nearby.]]> 2017-05-10 21:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171121954 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171122238 The extension of the Kimbell Art Museum is an addition to the museum designed by Louis Kahn the modernist architect for whom Piano worked at the beginning of his career, completed in 1972. The new gallery occupies 7595 square meters, compared with 11,148 square meters for the Kahn building, and cost 135 million dollars. Piano created a new entrance for the museum, with huge windows showing the bright red furniture against the alabaster white walls within. The materials used in the new museum included light-colored concrete, to harmonize with the Kahn building, combined with beams and ceilings of Douglas fir, and floors of white oak and an abundance of double-paned and fritted glass. The museum also includes modern ecological features including a vegetal roof, photovoltaic cells on the roof, geothermal wells, and LED lighting.]]> 2017-05-10 21:06:04 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171122238 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171122720 The museum, with nine levels, has an asymmetric industrial look to match the architecture of the neighborhood. in addition to its interior galleries, it has 1207 square meters of open-air exhibit space on a large terrace atop one section of the building. It was built of steel, concrete, and stone, but also with pine wood and other materials recycled from demolished factories.]]> 2017-05-10 21:10:04 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171122720 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171122942  The new museum preserved the picturesque brick Ivy-League facade of the 1925 Sackler Museum (1925), but added a new space in the courtyard, covered by a pyramidal glass roof, which increased the gallery space by 40 percent.^[44] The renovation adds six levels of galleries, classrooms, lecture halls, and new study areas providing access to parts of the 250,000-piece collection of the museums.]]> 2017-05-10 21:12:17 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171122942 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171123395 The 'City Gate' project in Valetta, Malta was the complete reorganization of the principal entrance to the Maltese capital of Valletta. It included a massive City Gate through the city 16th walls, and several new cultural institutions outside the walls, including an open-air theatre ‘machine’ within the ruins of the former Royal opera house, and the construction of a new Parliament building.]]> 2017-05-10 21:16:19 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171123395 anna_vezzoli99 https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171123809 it combines the Greek National Library and a new opera house for the Greek National Opera with two theaters in a single building. An artificial hill was created to raise the building and give it a view of the nearby sea. The opera house has a 1400-seat main theater and a smaller "black box" theater of 400 seats. The library is a square horizontal glass box placed on top of the opera house, similar to the perch of the art museum atop the Lingotto factory in Turin.]]> 2017-05-10 21:19:53 UTC https://padlet.com/anna_vezzoli99/dxsytcg06kib/wish/171123809