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Somebody who can do it and then some is Renzo Piano, the Italian architect whose refined new addition to the Art Institute opened over the weekend to large crowds and a big outdoor party. The $294 million Modern Wing, built to house the Institute's great collection of 20th and 21st century work, is a complicated exercise in reconciliation. A resolutely modern building, it not only manages to gently introduce itself into the greenery of Chicago's Millennium Park but also draws in three tricky neighbors - the original Art Institute, the active commuter railway lines that run between them...
...Read about Renzo Piano's design for the California Academy of Sciences...
Green Architecture Now! (Taschen) As buildings are some of the heaviest consumers of natural resources, renowned architects from Renzo Piano to Tadao Ando explore ways to reconcile the beauty of design with environmental responsibility...
...renovations, designed by renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano, will preserve the historic elements of the original 1927 building while adding more exhibition space. The new wing will take the place of previous additions, which have been added incrementally to the Fogg over the past 80 years...
...when updating a museum’s look, similar issues to those faced when working to conserve a piece of art’s original integrity must be confronted. At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston this is the balance that is currently being navigated. Acclaimed architect Renzo Piano—designer of the Center Pompidou in Paris, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York and the renovation of the Fogg Museum—recently received approval to commence expansion of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.The renovation proposal had posed a unique challenge for the Museum. Isabella Stewart...