The Pompidou Centre was derided by many when its design was first unveiled – yet its influence has been huge. As a renovation ...

Les aventuriers du marché de l’art contemporain (5/6). Du Centre Pompidou à la Fondation Beyeler, Renzo Piano a imposé sa ...

Démonstration. Construit entre 1971 et 1977, le Centre Georges Pompidou est l’une des œuvres les plus emblématiques de Renzo Piano. Authentique “machine urbaine”, son architecture haute ...

Renzo Piano, né le 14 septembre 1937 à Gênes, est un architecte italien. Il naît dans une famille d'architectes (son père, son grand-père et son oncle sont architectes) et fait ses études à Florence ...

Since 1977, when Renzo Piano and British partner Richard Rogers shocked the architectural establishment with the Georges Pompidou Center, that parody of high-tech design moored in the 18th-century ...

A new Italian law could convert up to 50 of Rome’s oldest and closed cinemas into shopping centres, supermarkets and hotels. Famed Italian architect Renzo Piano, who designed the Pompidou Centre ...

As the building approaches a major renovation, its co-creator Renzo Piano recalls the furore. This summer, the Centre Pompidou will close for five years, as Paris's popular polychrome landmark ...