DALLAS -- Two things were supposed to happen when the Nasher Sculpture Center opened here in 2003. Famous works like Rodin's ''Age of Bronze'' and Matisse's ''Madeleine I'' were to be bathed in copious sunlight streaming through a glass roof. And new vigor was to come to the surrounding neighborhood. The results exceeded expectations. And Dallas...
RONCHAMP, France -- Completed in 1955, Le Corbusier's hilltop chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in this hardscrabble patch of eastern France attracts some 100,000 supplicants each year, architectural and religious. If critics still sometimes blame Le Corbusier for inspiring generations of soulless, cookie-cutter housing projects and office parks, he...
SANTANDER, SPAIN -- Íñigo de la Serna worked on the construction of the Guggenheim Center, which, with its opening in 1997, turned the Basque city of Bilbao into one of Europe's leading culture and tourism destinations. Mr. de la Serna is now mayor of Santander, having won re-election last May. His unabashed ambition is to repeat for his own city...
Renzo Piano (født 14. september 1937) er en italiensk arkitekt. Han har tegnet en række berømte bygninger verden over, og er nok mest kendt for opførelsen af Pompidou-centeret i Paris i 1977 og Padre Pio-kirken (Chiesa de Padre Pio) i San Giovanni Rotondo i Italien, indviet 1. juli 2004. Den 20. juni 2005 indvidedes museet Zentrum Paul Klee i Bern i Schweiz.
Hans første arbejde i Norden bliver at designe kunstmuseet, oplevelsescenteret og skulpturparken på Tjuvholmen i Oslo.
Renzi Piano har vundet en række priser for sit arbejde, blandt andet Pritzker-prisen i 1998.