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RPBW Architects - Renzo Piano Building Workshop
© The Art Institute of Chicago ph. James Iska Photography
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RPBW Architects - Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Located in Grant Park, a green space on the banks of the lake, the Art Institute sits between Michigan Avenue and Columbus Drive, its site bisected by railroad tracks.
The limestone Beaux-Art building...
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RPBW Architects - Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Founded in 1930, the Whitney moved to its current Madison Avenue home, designed by Marcel Breuer, in 1966. At the time, its collection numbered some 2,000 pieces of 20th-century American art, so its n...
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RPBW Architects - Renzo Piano Building Workshop
The Morgan Library required new public spaces, safe and organized storage areas for the collection itself, an auditorium for chamber music, and a new reading room, all whilst preserving the Library’s ...
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Renzo Piano Building Workshop - Projects - By Type - London Bridge Tower
A mix of uses – residential, offices and retail – creates a building that is in use 24 hours a day. The slender, pyramidal form of the tower was determined by its suitability to this mix: large floor ...
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RPBW Architects - Renzo Piano Building Workshop
The building’s basic shape is simple and primary, and relates to the Manhattan grid of streets. Occupying nearly half a block between West 40th and 41st streets, the slender, cruciform tower meets the...