Wikio - Renzo Piano

Animal house (Material Interest)

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:05:00 GMT

Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano, the new California Academy of Sciences building is solar-powered, composed almost entirely of eco-friendly and recycled materials, and includes a "living roof," home to around two million species of plants (so that's what...

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Piano Renzo Piano Building Workshop 1966-2008 (Dexigner Design Portal)

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:00:01 GMT

The array of buildings by Renzo Piano is staggering in scope and comprehensive in the diversity of scale material and form He is truly an architect whose sensibilities represent the widest range of this and earlier centuries Such was the

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Gallery: Rain Forest, Coral Reef and Planetarium Under One Green Roof (Wired)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

: Photo: Annaliza Savage/Wired.com SAN FRANCISCO -- The California Academy of Sciences is practicing what they preach. The organization's new 410,000-square-foot eco-friendly facility in Golden Gate Park is a living, breathing science experiment. The Renzo Piano-designed structure is the only building in the world to house a planetarium, museum of natural history and aquarium under the...

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Beijing's building boom, driven by the Olympics, mixes daring design with a totalitarian theme (Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News)

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:28:00 GMT

Stunt climbers may have been scaling Renzo Piano's New York Times tower in recent weeks, but CCTV does them one better. The building is ...

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The Credit Crunch Climbs Up (And Down) The Real Estate Food Chain (SocketSite™)

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:08:48 GMT

Additional details from J.K. Dineen on what’s driving the sale of the seven proposed Renzo Piano parcels (not to mention a few other properties): California Mortgage and Realty President David Choo is selling off nine properties, including two downtown development...

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Chicago museum's new wing features "Flying Carpet" (ABS CBN)

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:56:22 GMT

CHICAGO (Reuters Life!) - Airy, transparent, and welcoming are some attributes ascribed to Renzo Piano's new wing for the Art Institute of Chicago.

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LACMA on a Saturday night (Metroblogging Los Angeles)

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:26:25 GMT

An impulsive early evening trip to LACMA last night to finally see the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (I know– long overdue,) housed in it’s Renzo Piano-designed digs, turned into a trip down memory lane for me. As it turned out, I had seen a lot of the ’80s and ’90s pieces in their original gallery [...]

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Intriguing Earth Architecture 55 (East Coast Architecture Review)

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:58:00 GMT

Genoa Harbor Rehabilitation, Genoa, Italy - Renzo Piano Workshop via flickr: Fernando Stankuns

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NY Times Building Climbing Deterrent (Archinect)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:05:04 GMT

Renzo Piano is looking for an aesthetically pleasing way to keep people from climbing the NY Times Building. NYT

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Architect Supports Changes to Times Tower (DATA news)

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:31:00 GMT

Renzo Piano said he supported plans by officials of The New York Times to alter the facade of the newspaper’s year-old building, which he designed, to prevent people from scaling the tower.

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#11968 - A wind tunnel by Renzo Piano, assembly lines by... (NOTCOT.ORG)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:45:11 GMT

A wind tunnel by Renzo Piano, assembly lines by Jean Nouvel, and a restaurant by MDN (Marco Visconti & Partners) - Ferrari has invested more than €200,000,000 since 1997 for the renovation of their facilities in Maranello, Italy.

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#11952 - Tinker Hatfield, Nike's Architect. great... (NOTCOT.ORG)

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:02:18 GMT

Tinker Hatfield, Nike's Architect. great interview that explains Renzo Piano's intent in designing the Pompidou Centre and direct relation to designing Nike's iconic sneaker, The Air Max [video!]

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Week in Review: Renzo De-Rodded, Staten Island's Moment, Brooklyn Bowl, St. Marks Place '08, More (Curbed)

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:57:42 GMT

As this long weekend Saturday gets underway, check out a selection of some of the top stories on Curbed this week. Click the image above to view the full photogallery. 1) Midtown: Renzo Piano's New York Times Tower started to...

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Renzo on Rod Removal: What does Renzo Piano think about... (Curbed)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:19:32 GMT

What does Renzo Piano think about the Times messing with the rods on the façade of his 52-story design? He's "totally in agreement" with the need to keep dumbasses from climbing up the side of the building. Also: The final...

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New York Times Building Architect Supports Rung Removal (Gothamist)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:37:14 GMT

Pritzker Award-winning architect Renzo Piano told the NY Times he was "totally in agreement" about the New York Times' decision to remove ceramic rods from the building's exteriors . The rods acted as rungs for three climbers to scale the building's exterior; Piano said, "I’m frankly quite worried about this new fashion of going up on buildings. This is what I call an inappropriate...

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twist of fate (Architechnophilia)

noreply@blogger.com (mad architect) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:05:00 GMT

On June 2008, Alain Robert popularised as Spiderman, scaled the recently completed New York Times Building protesting amongst other things Global Warming. The 52 story tower in Manhattan by Renzo Piano and FXFOWLE , is one of the greenest buildings in the city, wrapped with a brise soleil to minimize solar gain. Ironically, the sunscreens were used by Roberts and two subsequent climbers...

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Architect Blames His Screwup On Naughty Climbers [New York Times] (Gawker)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:29:13 GMT

Renzo Piano, the much-hyped "starchitect" who designed the Times building, is very upset at the extremely naughty people who have been using his building as it just begs to be used — as an...

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Architect Supports Changes to Times Tower (New York Times)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:59:24 GMT

Renzo Piano said he supported plans by officials of The New York Times to alter the facade of the newspaper’s year-old building, which he designed, to prevent people from scaling the tower.

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"Rungs" Removed From Ladder-Like Times Building (Gothamist)

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:26:32 GMT

Photograph, above, of the New York Times Building--as designed by Renzo Piano--by WallyG on Flickr ; below, photograph of workers removing the rods by David Dunlap/NY Times After a third person managed to scale up its ladder-like exterior, workers went to work removing a number of the horizontal "rungs" gracing the New York Times Building. The NY Times dutifully reports this decision...

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Macquarie Penthouse, Estate of the Day (Luxist)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:03:48 GMT

Filed under: Estates Today's home comes front the land down under. This penthouse in the heart of Sydney, Australia has views over Sydney's Botanical Gardens. The three story unit is located in the northern half of the Macquarie Apartments building designed by Renzo Piano. The modern glass and terracotta building lends itself to contemporary interior design. This apartment has an open...

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