World Famous Architect Shares Tips for Building Perfect Sandcastle

Architect Renzo Piano has designed iconic buildings from the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco to the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris to the new Shard skyscraper in London.

It turns out he also has some very specific thoughts about how to make a basic sand castle.

His advice may not be as radical as some of the buildings he’s created, but it’s useful, nonetheless.

And next time you’re at the beach, you can explain how your little structure follows the guidelines set by the man who created the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome and won architecture’s highest honor, the Pritzker Prize.