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The Zac Clichy-­‐Batignolles development area has been carved out of the vast expanse of the rail lines leading to and from Saint-­‐Lazare train station. It will transform this enclave into a new neighbourhood centred around Martin-­‐Luther-­‐King park and the new Paris Regional Court (by Renzo Piano). Macrolot E10 is a mixed development which features diverse social and intermediate rental housing units, a retirement home, businesses and shops, and a shared car park. The project was developed using a workshop type model involving the firms toa / aasb / maast / david besson-­girard. In this workshop, the scene of much hard work and many exchanges, the firms established a common floor plan and external style for all three sections of... More

Renowned Chef Stefano Manfrediand Architect Luigi Rossellihave in common a Milanese origin. The Milano of Stefano and Luigi is the once industrial earth of Italy, its industrial architecture, space, honest and cognisant of the quality of materials. BALLA is a transposition of the life along Milan’s Navigli canals to the shores of Sydney’s harbour. Osteria BALLA’s namesake was the Milanese Futurist artist GiacomoBalla who co-signed the Futurist Movement Manifesto in 1909. The Manifesto is an ode to industry and machines, one hundred years later the machines and industry have left Milano but the Architecture remains, proud and beautiful. The kitchen and bar are raised up from the main floor level and are framed by concrete trusses re... More

London Bridge Tower, which is also known as the Shard, is a 72 storey mixed use tower located besides London Bridge Station on the south bank of the river Thames. The station, which combines train, bus and underground lines is one of the busiest in London with 200,000 users per day. The project is a response to the Mayor’s policy of promoting high density development at key transport nodes. The form of the tower was determined by its prominence on the London skyline. Unlike other cities such as New York or Hong Kong, the Shard is not part of an existing cluster of high rise buildings. References included the masts of ships docked in the nearby Pool of London and Monet’s paintings of the Houses of Parliament. The slender pyramidal f... More

One of the most ambitious, complex and thrilling projects that Capoferri helped develop; this private Residence in Colorado, designed by Renzo Piano, is truly stunning and breathtaking. The main challenge consisted in creating a glazed, stainless steel façade with mullion dimensions reduced to a minimum (1”x4”), in a location where thermal transfer is extreme and the local authorities do not permit the use of inert gas in insulated glass units. Furthermore, the type of structure adopted for the building required the façade to allow the cantilevered rafters to independently deflect under snow loads. The minimal dimensions of the façade profiles imposed the use of full visible hardware, which was turned into a feature, carefully designed in c... More

Inaugurated by Explorations Architecture in November 2014, the Schuman Bridge is the 17th bridge built on the Saône in Lyon. The international competition for the Schuman Bridge, held in 2009 by the Urban community of Lyon (Grand Lyon), brought together designers such as Renzo Piano, Marc Mimram and Dietmar Feichtinger. Location Constructed along the narrows of the Saône, an area named World Heritage site by UNESCO, on the boundary between the city and a more rural landscape, the Schuman bridge is the new entryway to the historic center of Lyon. It connects the banks of Vaise to those at the base of the bluffs of Croix Rousse and is situated between the Masaryk bridge and the “Ile Barbe” bridge. These remarkable works of civil engineeri... More

Trame is an exhibition that explores, with an interdisciplinary approach and with more than 250 pieces, the different applications and forms of copper through art, design and architecture, science and technology. The set up and the graphic project of the exhibition, that allow to understand the value and the flexibility of this material,was designed by Migliore + Servetto Architects. Copper, a traditional material that the evolution of technology has gradually enriched in its potential and how to use it, finds a renewed today modernness of use in the field of architecture. Technical characteristics of durability and sustainability, however, certify what material of excellence it is. But, among the many qualities of copper, how... More

Architecture as a stylistic problem paper on the new center of Air Navigation Services of HungaroControl Zrt., Budapest (ANS III) "Their houses are massive but light and not forceful and scholar. They are not humorous but spreading serenity. ... We can openly turn to these buildings and we can bite of them as much as we want, our eyes can eat a lot and appetite of our imagination comes as well." Buildings, where architectural problems are particularly stylistic ones, can be considered as special examples. The recently completed new building of HungaroControl Zrt. is a building of such kind: an addition that sensitively and innovatively continues the previous phase, a house which organically fits in the creative oeuvre but at the sam... More

The ARchitecture Centre Amsterdam (ARCAM) needed a significantly larger accommodation. Therefore a wonderful location close to the Oosterdok was allocated to this promotional institute. In the vicinity of Renzo Piano’s New Metropolis was a small pavilion also designed by him that was going to be demolished. The columns and some of the floors needed to be integrated in the new design. Reuse of foundation parts was not the only limitation laid upon the architect. Consultation in the early stages of the design process of various parties (among others, two successive government architects) resulted in a maximum building envelope. This outline provided a trapezoidal building volume up to three storeys high. In addition three important requireme... More

In 1971 Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, in collaboration with Ove Arup & Partners, won the international competition, for which there were 681 entries, for an ‘information, entertainment and cultural centre’. The building was designed and built in six years, the main steel structure being erected in six months. Today, the vast building, located in the centre of historic Paris, houses a museum of modern art, reference library, industrial design centre, temporary exhibition space, children’s library and art centre, audio-visual research centre (IRCAM) and restaurants. At the time of the competition, there were no sizeable open spaces in this central area of the city, so the importance of creating public space was key to this project: half... More

Harvard Art Museums’ Renovated and Expanded Facility Opens New home provides greater access to the collections, among the nation’s largest and most renowned, for students, faculty, scholars, and the public The Harvard Art Museums—comprising the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum—open their new Renzo Piano Building Workshop–designed facility to the public on November 16, 2014. The renovation and expansion of the museums’ landmark building at 32 Quincy Street in Cambridge brings the three museums and their collections together under one roof for the first time, inviting students, faculty, scholars, and the public into one of the world’s great institutions for arts scholarship and research. In the... More

Bold refurbishment of 'Art Moderne' landmark in London gets go-ahead from planners Architects and designers, Orms, have secured planning consent (subject to a section 106 agreement) for the refurbishment and extension of Commonwealth House, a familiar mid-town London landmark. The nine storey prow clock tower of the 1939 building is an unmistakable feature on the corner of New Oxford Street and High Holborn. Originally designed by architect and planner Henry Philip Cart De Lafontaine as an ‘ultra-modern building of imposing appearance’ the refurbished building will provide 12,250 sqft of retail and 95,000 sqft Grade A office space for client TIAA Henderson Real Estate (TH Real Estate), and position the seventy five year old Grand Da... More

The new greenhouses open at the botanical garden in Padua in the name of technology and innovation Padua, September 15th 2014. The most ancient university botanical garden of the world improves for its technology and intelligence thanks to a team of companies which made possible the ambitious project of the architect Giorgio Strappazzon, VS associati studio. It's a mix of futuristic architecture, app, green tech and research laboratories. GREENHOUSES The building hosting new five greenhouses seems as a unique glass surface, 100 meters and 18high, thanks to the new fixing system of the panels without external profiles. The glasses produced by Veneto Vetro have been installed with special Fischer dowels, FZP-G which require only sem... More

Diogene, named after the antique philosopher Diogenes who is said to have lived in a barrel because he considered worldly luxuries to be superfluous, is a minimalist living unit which functions completely autonomously as a self-contained system and is thus independent of its environment. With a surface area of 2.5 x 3 metres when fully assembled and furnished, it can be loaded onto a lorry and transported anywhere. Whereas “Diogene’s” exterior corresponds to the image of a simple house, it is in truth a highly complex technical structure, equipped with various installations and technical systems that are necessary to guarantee its self-sufficiency and independence from the local infrastructure: Photovoltaic cells and solar modules, a rainwa... More

Sunset Development Company to present plans to San Ramon City Council & Planning Commission for 26-acre mixed-use project at Bishop Ranch Sunset Development Company (SDC), developer, owner and manager of Bishop Ranch,has engaged world-renowned architect Renzo Piano to design City Center in San Ramon. City Center will include retail, residential and hospitality elements. The first phase of the project will be a 350,000-square-foot retail component. The plan calls for a movie theatre, a variety of dining options, first class retail and community services. The project will have approximately 70 tenants upon opening, which is planned for late 2016. “We are delighted that Renzo Piano agreed to design City Center. The design and execu... More