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...York City in years. (It may also be a first sign of new hope for the city's beleaguered skyline, overbuilt with middling boxes. Major additions are now promised or under way from a long list of architects of Foster's caliber, including Frank Gehry, Fumihiko Maki, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers.) What Foster has created is a 46-story notched glass tower covered with a webwork of triangles, called a diagrid, in off-white stainless steel. That serpentine frame is both structural--it supports most of the building's weight--and delightful. It makes of the whole exterior...
...Then go for dinner at Il Bacaro in Via degli Spagnoli?it's intimate and they serve a tasting portion of your dinner partner's pasta. Also, they have a great wine list. If it were a Saturday I'd go to the minimalist nightspot ReD, part of architect Renzo Piano's music venue Auditorium. It's full of fun people but never overcrowded, with either a DJ or live music...
...Then go for dinner at Il Bacaro in Via degli Spagnoli - it's intimate and they serve a tasting portion of your dinner partner's pasta. Also, they have a great wine list. If it were a Saturday I'd go to the minimalist nightspot ReD, part of architect Renzo Piano's music-venue Auditorium. It's full of fun people but never overcrowded, with either a DJ or live music...
...much important art in there for it not to be in a place that’s state-of-the-art.”The renovations are set to start just prior to the 2008-2009 school year. The building will be redesigned by Italian architect Renzo Piano, who is best known for the edgy design of Paris’s Centre Georges Pompidou.The most fervent support for the project comes from the Student Friends of Harvard University Art Museums, an undergraduate group which coordinates events with the museums and promotes the museums’ collections. “We?...
...including the sarcophagus of Nefertiti - than anywhere outside of Cairo. The city's symbol, the Mole Antonelliana, a dome-plus-spire built in 1889 as part of a synagogue, now houses a fun cinema museum. Even Fiat's onetime central auto factory, the Lingotto, has been converted by architect Renzo Piano into a spiffy cultural and consumer mecca that includes an Agnelli art museum, a theater, a shopping mall and a five-star hotel. The Games have gone a long way toward updating Torino's Baroque-era cityscape with a new subway system, colorful Olympic housing that breaks with...