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Pop quiz: where is that gleaming stairwell featured on the cover of the now-coffee-stained course catalogue that you’ve been staring at for the past three weeks?It’s Harvard’s Northwest Science Building, and if it took you a while to...
He should be. Future historians may look back on the first decade or so of 21st century American architecture as the Age of Piano. In the past five years, Piano, whose practice is based in Genoa, Italy, has completed six major projects in the U.S. while working on five or...
In particular, Piano has become the go-to guy for any institution about to undertake a tricky expansion. "I'm not looking for trouble," he says, laughing. "But I never find myself in an easy space, where they say to me, 'O.K., here's a piece of land--go do...
But what appears from the outside as a serene Cartesian box gives way inside to something ever more complicated. On either side of the building's interior "piazza" are two giant spheres, both sliced at the bottom. One is an opaque steel ball that encloses the 290-seat planetarium. The...
Steady Art Beat Richard Lacayo blogs daily about art and architecture at time.com/lookingaround