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ARCHITECTURE
Harvard Art Museums Zentrum Paul Klee
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Shard
A rt museums are a large part Shard is a 72-storey, mixed-use tower located Institute of British Architects. He was honored
of the RPBW portfolio. Piano beside London Bridge Station on the south with the Pritzker Prize in 1998. The Pritzker
designed the Zentrum Paul bank of the river Thames. It is the tallest high- Prize jury compared Piano to Michelangelo
Klee, in Bern, Switzerland rise in Europe. and da Vinci and credited him with "redefining
where he incorporates Klee’s complex shapes The New York Times building is the modern and postmodern architecture."
and articulations. Other examples include the headquarters of the New York Times. The
Chicago Art Institute’s Modern Wing, home to 52-storey building’s themes of permeability “Architects have to dream.
European contemporary art and the recently and transparency express the intrinsic link We have to search for our
completed Harvard Art Museums as well as the between the newspaper and the city. Atlantis’s, to be explorers,
Whitney Museum at Gansevoort in New York. Piano is one of the most influential people in
Piano remarked that with the Whitney, the world. In August 2013 he was appointed adventurers, and yet to
Senator for Life in the Italian Senate by build responsibly and well.”
“It was necessary to be brave, to express the President Giorgio Napolitano. The quality of
strength of a museum for American art, which RPBW’s work has been recognized by over 70 - Renzo Piano
by definition resonates with ideas of freedom.” design awards including key awards from the
American Institute of Architects and the Royal
His most impressive building is the London
Bridge Tower also known as the Shard. The
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