Renzo Piano
| Born | September 14, 1937 |
| Hometown | Genoa, Italy |
| Net worth | $20 million |
| Children | Carlo Piano, Lia Piano, Giorgio Piano, Matteo Piano |
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How to spend a sun-fuelled holiday in Malta
- Malta is a island playground of beaches, history and food and drink – and the Maltese capital of Valletta, surrounded by sea and 16th-century bastion walls, has an enduring charm all of its own. A Unesco World Heritage site steeped in history, Valletta has, over the last decade, undergone a 21st-century revitalisation with lots of new boutique hotels, restaurants and restoration and renovation of historic sites and museums.
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- LifestyleThe Daily Beast
The World’s Most Famous Architect Designed LA’s Newest Hotel
Courtesy of Conrad Los AngelesThe world is full of starchitects like Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano, Jeanne Gang, David Adjaye–even the ghost of Zaha Hadid is still going strong. But the most famous, the one most likely to be found in the upper parts of lists about the greatest of all time is 93-year-old Frank Gehry.While his buildings around the globe are renowned, the Canada-born architect first broke through in his adopted home of California. Our latest selection for Room Key takes us to his latest
- EntertainmentElle Decor
This New Los Angeles Restaurant Captures the Glamour of the Silver Screen
At Fanny’s, Commune injects the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures with a dash of Old Hollywood drama.
- LifestyleLA Times
For Pompidou architect Richard Rogers, Los Angeles was inspiration and cautionary tale
The Pritzker Prize-winning designer, who died Saturday at 88, was influenced by the Case Study Houses, but critical of L.A. sprawl.
- WorldRobb Report
Legendary Architect Richard Rogers Has Died at Age 88
His firm, the London-based Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, announced Roger’s passing on Sunday.
- WorldThe Telegraph
‘Like the Loch Ness monster’: how Richard Rogers’s Pompidou Centre shocked Paris
Soon after the opening of the Pompidou Centre in 1977, Richard Rogers, who died at the weekend aged 88, was standing outside, looking up at the spaghetti tangle of blue pipes that cascade down its facade. A small, elderly woman asked what he thought of the building. “I proudly told her I was the architect,” Rogers later recalled. “She paused, looked at me, and hit me over the head with her umbrella.”
- EntertainmentThe Telegraph
Step inside GES-2, the world’s most beautiful fun palace
The grand opening of the spanking new GES-2 arts centre in Moscow last week was in many ways like the grand opening of a new “iconic” arts centre anywhere in the world. The art on display in the new spaces was totally international, the language used by the curators to describe it was the same peculiar contemporary art-speak you could hear from Beijing to Basel (I actually heard the word “post-ironic” uttered, without a trace of irony). The same champagne flowed, the same beautiful people greete
- EntertainmentLA Times
The architect behind the Academy Museum says his design is no 'Death Star'
The Pritzker Prize-winning Italian architect says that L.A.'s new film museum responds to the evolving city
- EntertainmentAssociated Press
Reels, Rosebud and R2-D2: The academy museum is set to roll
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has wanted to open a museum dedicated to films and filmmaking for nearly as long as its members have been making movies with sound and handing out Oscars. “Finally, at last, boy howdy hey, welcome to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures," Tom Hanks said at a media preview last week. Hanks, a member of the board of directors, led the fundraising for the $388 million project along with fellow actor Annette Bening and Walt Disney Executive Chairman
- EntertainmentUSA TODAY
Tom Hanks-approved and not hiding from history: Academy Museum finally rolls out the red carpet
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is being celebrated as a true home for movie history. Just don't call its "Star Wars"-like globe a "Death Star."
- EntertainmentLA Times
Feedback: What Debbie Reynolds knew before the Academy Museum
Readers raise eyebrows over Renzo Piano's Academy Museum glass sphere and respond to Times coverage of Emmy winners' race and age.
