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...years, Lamont won’t be the only place where students cram for finals. Last week, the Harvard Art Museum released images of planned renovations to the Sackler, Fogg and Busch-Reisinger Museums, due to be renovated over the next five years. Designed by renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano, the renovations will physically unite the three current museums, and will feature ample study rooms and an open courtyard conducive to working. Plans to change the structure of the Harvard Art Museum buildings have been in the works since 2003, when current Museum director Thomas W. Lentz was appointed...
...open at LACMA in February is a new, $56 million, Renzo Piano-designed home for Broad's contemporary art collection. The Broad Contemporary Art Museum, which has 60,000 sq. ft. (18,200 sq m) of exhibition space, is key to a three-part transformation now under way to reconfigure and expand LACMA'S 20-acre (8 hectare) campus on Wilshire Boulevard and, it is hoped, revitalize its collections?and its reputation...
...goods brands rely on a prominently placed logo to indicate their products' provenance, Bottega Veneta has made its most coveted leather-crafting technique into its signature. Known as intrecciato?Italian for woven?the technique has been employed by Bottega Veneta since the company was founded by Michele Taddei and Renzo Zengiaro in the Veneto region of Italy in 1966. Originally thought of as a way to make the brand's thin, supple leather more durable, intrecciato has become a style statement in the hands of Bottega Veneta creative director Tomas Maier. And style icons like Oprah Winfrey and Katie Holmes...
Harvard’s campus is no stranger to stars from the design world. The late Le Corbusier designed the Carpenter Center and Walter Gropius designed the Harkness Graduate Center at the Law School. Most recently, Italian architect Renzo Piano has helped guide the Fogg Art Museum renovations and Stefan Behnisch has been tapped to design the science complex in Allston...
...choice it's also strange to think of him that way. Because when he arrived on the scene three decades ago, Rogers represented everything that was the opposite of safe. He was 44 - a relative youth in the architectural field - when he became abruptly famous for co-designing, with Renzo Piano, one of the most uproarious and fiercely original buildings in history, the Pompidou Center in Paris...