Posts Tagged 'Renzo Piano'
Monaco builds into the Med to house new throng of super-rich
The tax haven has a luxury housing crisis – it doesn’t have enough land for the 2,700 multimillionaires forecast to settle there over the next decade
High living, low sales: Shard apartments still empty, five years on
Luxury flats with a price tag of up to £50m were touted as an easy sell – yet have failed to shift as the London market slows
Pompidou Centre: a 70s French radical that’s never gone out of fashion
The much-loved Paris landmark was designed in the 1970s by two young unknowns – Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano. On the eve of its 40th birthday, they recall the sheer joy and bravado – and the struggle – of creating it
Shard leads Olympic Aquatics Centre in race for the Stirling prize
Other contenders for architecture award include Birmingham library, Everyman theatre in Liverpool and LSE student centre
Battle of the superyachts: architects go overboard
Architects have long been obsessed with the nautical, but recent designs by the likes of Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster suggest they’re all at sea when creating actual yachts