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    • Wednesday, 24 March, 2021
      HTSIThe HTSI editor picks her favourite reads of 2021
      Renzo Piano: ‘Buildings are like children – you want them to have a happy life’

      At 83, the architect behind the Centre Pompidou and the Shard is working on his most ambitious projects yet. He explains why his buildings are designed to fly

      Renzo Piano in the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Genoa
    • Wednesday, 10 March, 2021
      InterviewArchitecture
      Renzo Piano on remaking the Pompidou — ‘It needs change’

      After 50 years, Paris’s most radical cultural building is still unrivalled — but its co-designer says its planned makeover is overdue

    • Tuesday, 18 September, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Megastructures made easy: Renzo Piano at the Royal Academy

      A seductive survey of the architect’s oeuvre asks more questions than it answers

      Renzo Piano's Centro Botín, Santander
    • Wednesday, 13 June, 2018
      FT SeriesArt Basel 2018
      Bacon-Giacometti at the Fondation Beyeler: a pairing of modernist giants

      By juxtaposing two of the biggest names in postwar art, this show risks covering familiar ground — but succeeds instead in casting new light on their oeuvres

      Francis Bacon
									
									Study for the Nurse in the Film Battleship Potemkin, 1957
									
									Oil on canvas
									
									198 x 142 cm
									
									Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
									
									© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich
									
									Photo: © Städel Museum -
									
									U. Edelmann – ARTOTHEK
    • Friday, 23 March, 2018
      Life & Arts
      How ‘High Tech’ became the architectural style of globalisation

      Industrial structures like the Pompidou and Lloyd’s Building seem nostalgic for a bygone age

      POMPIDOU CENTRE © DAVID NOBLE
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2017
      FT Magazine
      The Ferrari files: how one man’s obsession saved racing car history

      Ronald Stern has spent four decades tracing the life and legacy of the iconic Italian carmaker 

      A picture shows the Ferrari logo on a 1990 Ferrari F40 named in the celebration of the company's 40th Birthday with an estimated price of 885,000-1,000,000 GBP (1,000,000-1,162,832 euro /  1,150,000-1,300,000 USD) at Sotheby's auction house in London on August 12, 2016. 
									The car will be offered for auction on September 7, 2016.  / AFP / DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS        (Photo credit should read DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images)
    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Renzo Piano’s self-effacing landmark in Santander

      The new Centro Botín helps tie together the Spanish city and its waterfront

      Santader's new Centro Botín is divided between art and education
    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2017
      InterviewLife & Arts
      Architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha — adventures in liquid stone

      The RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner talks about his love of concrete — and being banned from practising in Brazil

      Rocha's Brazilian Museum of Sculpture in São Paulo
    • Friday, 15 July, 2016
      UK economy
      ‘Paddington Pole’ tower project in London brought down to earth

      Developers switch designs from 254-metre residential tower to squat office cube

      puknews
    • Tuesday, 15 March, 2016
      Property
      Skyscraper projects too often fail to express a city’s spirits

      Quest for sky high returns can grate on the eye

      The newly constructed skyscraper, The Leadenhall Building (L), stands on the London skyline next to the dome of St Paul's Cathedral on September 15, 2014 in London, England (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
    • Tuesday, 9 February, 2016
      Adam Thomson
      Notebook: Paris needs to acquire a head for heights

      The French capital collects designs that will never be built, writes Adam Thomson

      A handout picture of the Swiss architecture agency Herzog & de Meuron project of a triangle high-rise building at Porte de Versailles, in Paris, France, 25 September 2008. The 50-storey pyramid-like rising 180 meters would be the first skyscraper to be built inside Paris in 30 years. Paris' Mayor Bertrand Delanoe anounced on 25 September that the Tower project will generate 5,000 jobs and will respect the ecological Paris Climate Plan. EPA/HERZOG & DE MEURON EDITORIAL USE ONLY
    • Monday, 8 February, 2016
      Property sector
      Thicket of London towers brings down criticism on developers

      There are 260 planned developments of more than 20 storeys

    • Tuesday, 20 October, 2015
      Property sector
      Plans for 65-storey Paddington tower revealed

      Site to be developed by company that built London’s Shard skyscraper

      Renzo Piano Tower  Paddington
    • Tuesday, 15 September, 2015
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Prometeo, Ruhrtriennale, Kraftzentrale, Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord — review

      Nono’s beguiling 150-minute opera was staged here with almost no distractions from the music

      Luigi Nono's 'Prometeo' at Ruhr Triennale. Photo: Wonge Bergmann
    • Friday, 1 May, 2015
      Life & Arts
      New Whitney Museum’s inaugural show ‘America Is Hard to See’

      Exhibition both critiques and panders to art-world consensus

    • Friday, 14 November, 2014
      Life & Arts
      Renzo Piano’s revamp of the Harvard Art Museums

      The makeover is long overdue but has the architect gone far enough?

      The Harvard Art Museums with the new addition by Renzo Piano
    • Wednesday, 5 November, 2014
      Prime property
      Green light for 26-floor residential tower next to Shard

      Southwark council backs plans for 26-floor residential building

      The Shard is the tallest building in western Europe
    • Wednesday, 16 July, 2014
      Edwin Heathcote
      Architectural blockbusters feature in Stirling Prize shortlist

      Most visible candidate is 308m Shard skyscraper

    • Friday, 9 May, 2014
      UK holidays
      Shard becomes London’s ‘eyeful’ tower
      reflection in shard
    • Monday, 10 March, 2014
      Global property
      Planners, architects and developers promote mixed-use property projects

      Planners, architects and developers across the world are promoting mixed-use projects, particularly if they include cultural buildings

      Wide angle view of atrium with glazed skylight, Galaxy Soho, Beijing, China
    • Friday, 28 February, 2014
      House & Home
      The vineyards given a modern makeover by world’s top architects

      With so many vineyards competing for tourism, a dazzling new design may also be a sound commercial decision

      Marqués de Riscal in Rioja, Spain, by Frank Gehry
    • Tuesday, 14 January, 2014
      Property sector
      Sellar set to build high-end homes in second Shard tower
      Aerials Views Of The Canary Wharf Business District And The City Of London...Lights illuminate the windows of skyscrapers and buildings, including the Shard, Tower Bridge, and the Tower of London, as they stand on the banks of the River Thames in this aerial photograph taken over the City of London, U.K., on Monday, Dec. 9, 2013. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said Britain's recovery will need to be sustained for a while before it is strong enough to withstand higher interest rates. Photographer: Matthew Lloyd/Bloomberg
    • Monday, 6 January, 2014
      Property sector
      News Corp leaves Wapping for ‘Baby Shard’ building in London
    • Wednesday, 4 December, 2013
      World
      The creative tension in London architecture

      Architects must engage with differences in scale, style and era, from medieval streets to steel skyscrapers

      The Shard towers over St Thomas Street on July 5, 2012 in London, England
    • Monday, 21 October, 2013
      Commodities
      New York turns on to shale gas, easing reliance on heating oil
      New York's meatpacking district where a new pipeline for shale gas is set to terminate
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