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

The Academy invited forty architecture firms to participate in an international design competition and chose six finalists to meet with the board for an interview. Renzo Piano, a Pritzker Prize ...

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 ...

Plans for the center were announced late last year and the building is one of just two to three new commissions accepted by Renzo Piano annually, according to the studio. The design phase for the ...

Piano and Rogers' design was chosen from 681 competition entries. Our idea was a museum that would inspire curiosity, not intimidate people, and that would open up culture to all – Renzo Piano ...