The title of his practice is the Renzo Piano Building Workshop: a name that emphasises the intimacy of craftsmanship, materials, and making. Yet Renzo Piano and his firm have designed billion-pound ...

‘A rich bouillabaisse,’ is how Italian architect Renzo Piano described his design for New York’s Whitney Museum – an asymmetric assemblage of steel, concrete and glass between the Hudson River and the ...

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Architecture studio Renzo Piano Building Workshop has revealed its plans for Jawaher Boston Medical District in Sharjah, which will include healthcare facilities surrounded by a park. Jawaher Boston ...

Below ground lies the biggest particle accelerator in the world. On the surface, though, an educational centre has opened: Renzo Piano’s Science Gateway, a technological footbridge that runs between ...

“It’s a soap bubble. It’s a flying ship. It’s a flying vessel, dirigible, zeppelin,” says an impassioned Renzo Piano. “But it’s not a ‘Death Star.’ It’s not about that.” Piano is seated inside the ...

Renzo Piano Building Workshop’s cubical proposal for the $100 million Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute was approved and will rise on the Hopkins campus next year. (Courtesy Renzo Piano ...

Want to live in a building designed by a high-profile architect? The options have never been better in New York City—from Zaha Hadid and Álvaro Siza to Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick. Not one to ...

In August 2018, a section of Genoa's Morandi Bridge collapsed during heavy rain, killing 43 people. Following the disaster, high-profile Italian starchitect Renzo Piano's firm was chosen to design its ...

The Italian government has sped up plans to rebuild the Morandi Bridge that collapsed in Genoa this August, and taken up the Genoa-born Renzo Piano on his offer to design the replacement for free.

A penthouse atop a new Miami Beach tower designed by architect Renzo Piano is coming on the market for $68 million. If it sells for close to that number, it would be the most expensive apartment ever ...