Earth2Tech (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
The California Academy of Sciences, a collection of exhibits including a massive aquarium, a planetarium and a natural history museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, has gotten a new and much greener home. When the academy’s doors reopen in September, they hope for LEED Platinum certification (the highest honor in green building) for the [...]
Dexigner Design Portal (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
The array of buildings by Renzo Piano is staggering in scope and comprehensive in the diversity of scale material and form He is truly an architect whose sensibilities represent the widest range of this and earlier centuries Such was the
Global Intellect (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
: Photo: Annaliza Savage/Wired.com SAN FRANCISCO — The California Academy of Sciences is practicing what they preach. The organization’s new 410,000-square-foot eco-friendly facility in Golden Gate Park is a living, breathing science experiment. The Renzo Piano-designed structure is the only building in the world to house a planetarium, museum of natural history and aquarium under the same [...]
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
Stunt climbers may have been scaling Renzo Piano's New York Times tower in recent weeks, but CCTV does them one better. The building is ...
DATA news (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
Renzo Piano said he supported plans by officials of The New York Times to alter the facade of the newspaper’s year-old building, which he designed, to prevent people from scaling the tower.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
There are some cities in the world where it's best to lose the map, to dismantle the GPS and just take life as it comes around every ancient bend in the road.
NOTCOT.ORG (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
A wind tunnel by Renzo Piano, assembly lines by Jean Nouvel, and a restaurant by MDN (Marco Visconti & Partners) - Ferrari has invested more than €200,000,000 since 1997 for the renovation of their facilities in Maranello, Italy.
NOTCOT.ORG (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
Tinker Hatfield, Nike's Architect. great interview that explains Renzo Piano's intent in designing the Pompidou Centre and direct relation to designing Nike's iconic sneaker, The Air Max [video!]
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Renzo Piano said he supported plans by officials of The New York Times to alter the facade of the newspaper's year-old building, which he designed, to prevent people from scaling the tower.
New York Post (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
What's black and white and red-faced all over? The New York Times finally began removing the lower nine feet of the distinctive ceramic bars surrounding its Eighth Avenue building yesterday after a third person in six weeks scaled the facade...
A Blog For All (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
A few days back, I wrote of the UN considering to withhold doing any more business with an Israeli businessman Lev Leviev, because he was busy building housing in the West Bank. Well, the craziness at the UN hasn't stopped Leviev from going after bigger fish or flashing the cash. His company, Africa-Israel Investments, bought the old New York Times building (not the new Renzo Piano designed
Shariah Finance Watch (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
London skyscrapers become latest must-have for Gulf investors By Julia Werdigier Thursday, June 19, 2008 LONDON: After investing millions of pounds in British banks, the stock exchange and other financial companies, Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds are now pouring money into London’s City skyline. A Kuwait fund just spent £400 million, or $783 million, to buy the Willis Building, [...]
architecture.mnp (Free subscription) | 15/06/2008
http://video.google.com/videoplay'docid=1844176650002432714 Charlie Rose sits down with 2008 Pritzker Prize winner Jean Nouvel - and past winners Frank Gehry , Zaha Hadid and Renzo Piano . Original air date: June 5th, 2008. :: Video Sundays, or VS, is a weekly feature here on AMNP. For more architecture-related videos, click on any Sunday in the sidebar calendar - or on the ‘videos’ category in the...
Space to think (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
Richard Rogers is a undoubtedly a design legend. Since the completion of the Pompidou Centre in Paris 30 years ago, he hasn’t looked back. The Pompidou Centre, the building he designed with Renzo Piano, which propelled him to the forefront of modern architecture is currently celebrating its anniversary with a major retrospective of his work. 30 [...]
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
NEW YORK - The spectacle of two climbers scaling the 52-story New York Times tower within hours raised questions about the building's security and how to deter future daredevils.The perilous thrills of climbing urban structures from the Eiffel Tower to the Empire State Building with no safety gear has drawn thousands of enthusiasts — both practitioners and fans."We can't celebrate it because it is...
