Renzo Piano

According to designboom | architecture & design magazine, piano’s 565 Broome SoHo was his first residential building in New York City.² According to designboom | architecture & design magazine, the 565 Broome SoHo development contains 115 residences.² According to Designboom, Piano's 565 Broome SoHo building comprises a pair of conjoined glass structures.²

According to designboom | architecture & design magazine, 565 Broome SoHo includes automated parking for 40 cars and a private gated driveway with porte-cochere.² According to designboom | architecture & design magazine, 565 Broome was developed by Bizzi & Partners, Aronov and Halpern; Renzo Piano Building Workshop was architect and RDAI designed interiors.² According to designboom | architecture & design magazine, 565 Broome SoHo amenities include a heated 55-foot indoor pool, steam rooms, sauna, fitness center, landscaped terrace, and a lounge with a 92-foot-high ceiling.²

According to designboom | architecture & design magazine, the Renzo Piano Building Workshop designed the Krause Gateway Center in Des Moines in collaboration with OPN Architects.³ According to designboom | architecture & design magazine, the Krause Gateway Center includes offices for 800 people, a 2-story underground parking garage, art space, meeting rooms, fitness center, terrace, and green roof.³ According to Designmag, piano became an Italian senator for life in 2013.⁴

According to Design Mag, piano received the Pritzker Architecture Prize.⁴ According to Designmag, piano designed London’s Shard, a 72-storey tower.⁴ According to Designmag, the Shard is located on the south bank of the River Thames in London.⁴

According to Design Mag, the Centre Pompidou features a 166-meter-long steel structure with glass walls.⁴ According to Design Mag, piano designed Rome’s Auditorium Parco della Musica, whose construction site yielded remains of an ancient Roman villa.⁴ According to Inexhibit, renzo Piano was born in 1937 in Genoa, Italy.⁵ According to Inexhibit, in 1971 Piano, with Richard Rogers and Gianfranco Franchini, won the competition for Paris’s Centre Pompidou.⁵

According to the Guardian, the consolidated Harvard Art Museums facility measures 240,000 square feet.¹ According to the Guardian, the Guardian notes Yale’s gallery reopened in 2012 after its own expansion.¹ The Guardian reported that Harvard did not disclose a final cost for its museum project.¹

According to the Guardian, a 1999 Harvard plan for an all-new museum on the Charles River fell through before the Piano project.¹ According to the Guardian, Mark Rothko produced five murals for a Harvard building project in 1961–62, abandoning a planned sixth.¹

According to The Guardian critic, the Guardian's critic judged the Harvard project a largely successful overhaul presented as a modest intervention, with one serious flaw.¹ According to The Guardian architecture critic, a Guardian critic praised Piano’s Harvard museum redesign overall while identifying a substantial flaw.¹ According to The Guardian, before the Piano renovation, the Harvard art museums' cramped quarters and awkward divisions meant they never achieved the stature of Yale's gallery, which reopened after expansion in 2012.¹

A Guardian critic argued that the earlier Harvard museums’ limited space and separation of collections hindered their standing among university museums.¹ The Guardian reported that the museums’ fundraising division raised more than $250 million for the project.¹ The Guardian reported that Harvard's museum fundraising exceeded $250 million, without identifying that amount as the project's final cost.¹

The Guardian reported that Harvard's earlier proposal for a new Charles River museum did not proceed.¹ According to The Guardian critic, Piano's Harvard art museums stand in opposition to Yale's praised new gallery in many ways.¹ According to designboom, the Krause Gateway Center project is dated 2015–2018 in its published project details.³

According to Designmag, Designmag presents Piano’s buildings as among the world’s most beautiful and as symbols of their cities.⁴ According to Inexhibit, Inexhibit characterizes Piano's architecture as conveying a positive approach to society.⁵ A UNESCO representative stated EU, Sarajevo Canton, and Italian funding covers about 75% of the Ars Aevi museum's total costs.⁶