Workers are now putting the finishing touches on two new buildings designed by Renzo Piano for Columbia University, the first phase of the biggest expansion for the prestigious school in more than a century.
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Matteo Renzi named Renzo Piano chief advisor to his Casa Italia program, a long-term project for natural disaster risk prevention.
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The trailer - Airing this Saturday @11.30pm and Sunday @1pm with Renzo Piano, Stefano Albertini, Giuseppe and Francesca Lavazza, Antonio Monda and Davide Azzolini, Centro Primo Levi on NYC Life - Ch 25 and 22 throughout the New York City metropolitan area
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Italians architects continue to be world leaders in design. Renzo Piano, 77, is the creator of no less than 21 projects for museums all over the world; only the most recent is his redesign for the once stodgy Harvard Art Museum in Boston. Now Stefano Boeri, 58, has just won the $62,000 International Highrise Award for his “Bosco Verticale” (Vertical Woodland) twin high rise-towers of 111 and 78 floors respectively in Milan.
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Facts & StoriesOn Monday, April 19 at 4:30 p.m. the body of St. Pio of Pietrelcina will be moved from the crypt in the small Santa Maria delle Grazie sanctuary to a crypt covered with gold mosaics designed by Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik, located in a magnificent new church designed by Renzo Piano. Many of the Saint's followers find it unacceptable, considering the new sanctuary too modern, too majestic, and above all, too removed from the way Padre Pio lived his life.
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“Every time, it is a new adventure: A new place, new geography, new topography, new people … How can you believe that you can impose your style?” said the famous Italian architect at the opening ceremony organized by the California Academy of Sciences.