Renzo Piano’s Most Famous Designs

Published January 30, 2013
Updated February 9, 2018
Renzo Piano Designs

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Renzo Piano’s Most Famous Designs: Centre Georges Pompidou

Pompidou

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Built in Paris between 1971 and 1977, the Pompidou Center is the proud home to a public library, the largest modern art museum in Europe (the Musée National d’Art Moderne), and a top-of-the-league music and acoustics study center. Piano built the structure as an over-the-top ode to high-tech architecture in which he strives to reveal a building’s inner workings and technological marvels that typically remain hidden beneath its surface.

Renzo Piano Designs Pompidou 2

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Renzo Piano Designs: Parco della Musica

Renzo Piano Designs Parco

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Considered one of the most-visited music facilities in the world, Rome’s Parco della Musica was designed by Piano on the same grounds of the 1960 Summer Olympic Games. The facilities comprise three massive dome-like structures that hold three separate concert halls. One unique note about the construction: in forging new ground, Piano and co found remains of the old. The construction process unearthed an ancient Italian villa that Renzo Piano decided to include in his designs.

Parco della Musica

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Parco della Musica

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