Renzo Piano's top 5 designs

General Info 📑

• Renzo Piano, born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect.

• 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 🇺🇸

FACTS 🏗📊

• Owner: The New York Times

• Height: 1,046 ft (318.8 m)

• Cost: $850 million 💰

• Location: 620 Eighth Avenue, Manhattan, New York 10018

• Structural engineer: Thornton Tomasetti

No2: Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens 🇬🇷

FACTS 🏗📊

• Type: Cultural Center

• Website: http://www.snfcc.org/

• Cost: €566 million

• Capacity: 1,400-seat opera auditorium and a 400-seat black box theatre.

No1: The Shard, London 🇬🇧

FACTS 🏗📊

• Cost: £435 million

• Height: 310 m (1,017 ft)

• Structural engineer: WSP Global

• Lifts/elevators: 36

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