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AD Classics: Maison Hermès / Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In Tokyo's bustling Ginza district, where tradition and modernity converge, the Maison Hermès emerges as a luminous architectural icon. Designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop and completed in 2001, the 15-story structure serves as the Japanese headquarters of Hermès, the renowned French luxury brand celebrated for its craftsmanship and timeless elegance. Beyond its function as a commercial hub, the building encapsulates Hermès' ethos, transforming its urban site into a dialogue between light, materiality, and context.

Istanbul Modern Museum / Renzo Piano Building Workshop + Arup

Paula Pintos — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 05:00:00 +0000

With 10,500 square meters of usable space across five levels, the new Istanbul Modern building comprises large exhibition galleries, multifunctional spaces, dedicated zones for education, offices, and spaces for commercial activity.

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures / Renzo Piano Building Workshop + Gensler

Paula Pintos — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 23:00:00 +0000

In the heart of Los Angeles, at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is the world's premier movie museum.

GES 2 House of Culture / Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Paula Pintos — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 08:00:00 +0000

When thinking about what kind of building would be perfect to create a space for contemporary culture, a power station comes to mind immediately! This is what RPBW found in Moscow: a magnificent historical power station built between 1904 and 1908. Thus, the GES-2 project transforms this building into a space conceived as an articulated experience going from visual to performing arts, passing through a civic free space destined for people.

Children's Surgical Hospital / Renzo Piano Building Workshop + Studio TAMassociati

Paula Pintos — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 03:00:00 +0000

Our vision of Africa has recently undergone a slow but steady development, from a neglected continent to the new frontier of an evolving world. The challenge of this new project of Emergency NGO is to combine the practical requirements of a pediatric surgery hospital in Africa with the desire to create a model piece of architecture: rational, tangible, modern, beautiful, but firmly linked to tradition. It is more than a mere hospital: the first architectural work in Africa designed by RPBW is a sign of extreme symbolic importance for the promotion of health care and culture in Uganda and in entire Africa.

OōEli Art Park / Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Collin Chen — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China, OōEli is the first Chinese project undertaken by Renzo Piano, one of the Pulitzer Prize winners, and an iconic comprehensive art park covering an area of about 230,000 square meters and incorporating offices, art museums, art centers, show fields, design hotels, and art commerce.

MOdA Headquarters of the Paris Bar Association / Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Paula Pintos — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 02:00:00 +0000

The MOdA, the headquarters of the Paris Bar Association), is an integral part of the new Cité Judiciaire, a group of buildings dedicated to the legal profession, currently under construction in Paris’s 17th arrondissement. Symbolically transparent, the life of the building, its activity, and its comings and goings will be clearly visible through its facade. The MOdA is sited so that its building fits with and references the much larger Palais de Justice (law courts) building, while standing proudly independent from it, a clear entity in its own right. Structurally sophisticated to deal with a site that sits on top of the Metro, it is also an important part of the new public urban spaces being generated here that will invigorate this neighbourhood.

Pathé Foundation / Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Cristian Aguilar — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 16:00:00 +0000

The art of inserting a building into an historical city block means engaging in an open, physical dialogue with those already there. Building onto an extant structure also presents an opportunity for a more widespread renovation project, a reclaiming of space. The new headquarters of the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé is an unexpected presence, a curved volume one glimpses floating in the middle of the courtyard in which it sits, anchored on just a few supports. On the ground, there is a stand of birch trees, a floral island set in the dense mineral context of the city.

565 Broome SoHo Residential Building / Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Paula Pintos — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 09:00:00 +0000

565 Broome SoHo is located in one of New York’s most historic neighborhoods - Soho. Overhanging the Hudson River, the residential tower offers its occupants an outstanding panoramic view on the city and on the river. This project is in line with the district’s spirit, being historically a center for arts, but also more recently for restaurants, shops, hotels, and local businesses.

Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church / Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Martita Vial della Maggiora — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 02:00:00 +0000

The church dedicated to Padre Pio is a sacred building with ample open space for the public, yet it’s lines are deliberately non-monumental and clearly exude a warm welcome. The project was based on two fundamental principles: the use of a single type of stone as a symbol of oneness with its surroundings, and the idea of the church as a home open to all. The square leads naturally into the main body of the church, the forward-sweeping wing-shaped roof and the ample glass frontal panes – with the story of Revelations on great coloured tapestries – are clear messages of inclusion.

The Shard / Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 05:00:00 +0000

The Shard, also known as the London Bridge Tower, is a 72-storey, mixed-use tower located beside London Bridge Station on the south bank of the River Thames. This project was a response to the urban vision of London Mayor Ken Livingstone and to his policy of encouraging high-density development at key transport nodes in London. This sort of sustainable urban extension relies on the proximity of public transportation, discourages car use and helps to reduce traffic congestion in the city.

Paris Courthouse / Renzo Piano Building Workshop

María Francisca González — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 03:00:00 +0000

Situated on the northern edge of central Paris, the new Tribunal de Paris will regroup various facilities currently dispersed around the capital, becoming the largest law courts complex in Europe. The building takes the form of a slim, transparent, 160m tower of stacked volumes of decreasing size, carefully laid out for efficiency and ease of use.

Aurora Place / Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 19:00:00 +0000

An office and apartments skyscraper in the historical district of Sydney, designed to be human and hospitable, like a vertical village. The use of double-skin, in this case, gives lightness to the building, and acts as a temperature regulator, thus saving valuable energy. To celebrate the Olympic Games in Sydney in the year 2000 the Australian corporation, Lend Lease Development, initiated and commissioned the design and construction of a commercial tower and a residential building. At first sight, the buildings seem to be an exercise in pure form, as if they were sails that rise until they suddenly adopt the shape of an unfolding fan. In fact, however, the building's striking form also incorporates functionality, sociability, and technological innovation.

Centro Botín / Renzo Piano Building Workshop + luis vidal + arquitectos

Fernanda Castro — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 12:00:00 +0000

The Centro Botín, a space for art, culture and education, projecting into the Bay of Santander, will restore to the city the immense dockland site of the Albareda mole, used until now as a parking lot. This is a strategic area, overlooking the sea, near the old city centre and enhanced by the historic Jardines de Pereda. The centre was strongly supported by Emilio Botín (1934-2014), president of Banco Santander and financed by the Botín Foundation, one of the most important private foundations in Spain, established in 1964 with the aim of fostering the social, economic and cultural development of Cantabria.

Château La Coste Art Gallery / Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Diego Hernández — Thu, 18 May 2017 11:00:00 +0000

The new building designed by RPBW rises in the heart of the grapevines of the prestigious Château La Coste realm.

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre / Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 03:00:00 +0000

The Stavros Niarchos Cultural Centre is located in Kallithea, 4 km south of central Athens. An important cultural and educational project, the site will comprise the National Library of Greece and the Greek National Opera in a 170,000 sq m landscaped park. Currently a parking lot left over from the 2004 Olympic Games, once the site of a racetrack, the project restore the site’s lost connections with the city and the sea.

Renzo Piano Designs Glass Soho Tower for New York

Karissa Rosenfield — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 12:00:00 +0000

Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) has released plans for a 25-story residential tower in New York. Dubbed the "SoHo Tower," the new skyscraper will be rise on a vacant lot at the western edge of the city's Soho district between Broome and Watts Street. It will be comprised of 115 apartments, a fitness center, swimming pool and automated parking, grounded by street level commercial units.

Eighty-Seven Park / Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Eric Oh — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 09:00:00 +0000

Located in North Beach in Miami, Florida, Eighty Seven Park will be a luxury condominium, and Renzo Piano’s first residential project in the western hemisphere. Set to be completed in 2018, the project seeks to seamlessly blend sky, sea and ground, addressing both the ocean and nearby 35-acre park. Seventy apartments ranging in size from 1400 to 7000 square feet sit atop two lush parks with uninterrupted ocean views. Read more after the break.