Renzo Piano's top 5 designs
Updated: Jul 20, 2020
General Info ๐
His notable buildings include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (with Richard Rogers, 1977), The Shard in London (2012), and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (2015) and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens (2016).
He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1998.
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Top of his most recognised buildings are listed below:
No.3: New York Times Building ๐บ๐ธ
FACTS ๐๐
Owner: The New York Times
Height: 1,046ย ft (318.8ย m)
Cost: $850 million ๐ฐ
Location: 620 Eighth Avenue, Manhattan, New York 10018
Structural engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
No2: Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens ๐ฌ๐ท
FACTS ๐๐
Type: Cultural Center
Website: http://www.snfcc.org/
Cost: โฌ566 million
Capacity: 1,400-seat opera auditorium and a 400-seat black box theatre.
No1: The Shard, London ๐ฌ๐ง
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Cost: ยฃ435 million
Height: 310ย m (1,017ย ft)
Structural engineer: WSP Global
Lifts/elevators: 36
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