Renzo Piano Building Workshop bridges a historic structure and a grand public space with its trademark Classicism at The Art Institute of Chicago's Modern Wing.
Chicago, Illinois Renzo Piano Building Workshop The Modern Wing: Where a Familiar Type Soars Renzo Piano’s Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago isn’t simply the best new building to hit Chicago in years. It represents the triumph of a type — the art museum with parallel masonry walls, generous expanses of glass, and an oversailing roof that serves as a louvered sunshade for galleries below. When Piano introduced this type at his Beyeler Foundation Museum near Basel, Switzerland, in 1997, it was overshadowed by the hoopla surrounding Frank Gehry’s eruption of titanium in Bilbao. Yet time has revealed
Project Specs The Art Institute of Chicago'The Modern Wing Chicago, Illinois Renzo Piano Building Workshop << Return to article the People Architect Renzo Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with Interactive Design Inc., architects (Chicago) Design Team: J. Moolhuijzen (partner in charge),D.Rat, C.Maxwell-Mahon with A.Belvedere, D.Colas, P.Colonna, O.Foucher, A.Gallissian, S.Giorgio-Marrano, H.Lee, W.Matthews, T.Mikdashi, J.B.Mothes, Y.Pagès, B.Payson, M.Reale, J.Rousseau, A.Stern, A.Vachette, C.von Däniken and K.Doerr, M.Gomes, J.Nakagawa; Y.Kyrkos, C.Colson, O.Aubert (models) Consultants: Structure: Ove Arup & Partners Services: Ove Arup & Partners + Sebesta Blomberg Civil engineering Patrick Engineering Structure for bridge interface with Millenium Park: Wiss, Janey, Elstner Associates Inc
Project Specs Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto, Canada Gehry International << Return to article the People Team Aaron Turner Adam Wheeler Anna Marie Flaherty Apurva Pande Cara Cragan Colby Mayes Craig Gilbert Dave Hardie David Pakshong Doug Glenn Doug Pierson Elizabeth Grace George Metzger Heather Waters Henry Brawner Jason Tax Jeff Guga John Passmore Julie Lai Karen Tom Laura Bachelder Laura Killam Lauren Taylor Leif Halverson Leon Cheng Lisa Cage Monica Valtierra Day Natalie Magarian Nathalie Kull Patrick Hwang Peter Buffington Randy Jefferson Rogan Ferguson Ronald A. Rosell Stephen Traeger Su Kim Susan Beningfield Zach Burns the Products Curtain
With nine offices in Germany and abroad, von Gerkan Marg und Partners (gmp) is known for such major architectural works as the Berlin Central Station (2006) and numerous other buildings and developments throughout Europe, Asia, and South Africa.
Project Specs Chapel of the Evangelical Academy Hofgeismar, Germany King & Miranda Design << Return to article the People Architect gmp – von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects Elbchaussee 139 22763 Hamburg T: +49.40.88 151 0 F: +49.40.88 151 177/8 E-Mail: Hamburg-E@gmp-architekten.de Design: Meinhard von Gerkan and Joachim Zais, 2002 Team, design: Monika van Vught Project leader: Joachim Zais General contractor Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau, Dresden Photographer Marcus Bredt Berlin (0049-30-25298284) CAD system, project management, or other software used: Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau used for construction work of interior design AutoCAD 2008. the Products Structural system: Self-supporting room-in-room-system (steel framework) Suspended
Smith Street, in Brooklyn, New York’s Carroll Gardens neighborhood, has evolved over the course of the past decade from a rugged urban commercial strip peppered with family shoe stores, bodegas, and windowless Italian social clubs, to the area’s restaurant row, playing host to a mix of both serious and theme-heavy establishments, from top-ranked restaurants run by ambitious chefs to a tiki bar named the Zombie Hut.
Color, texture, a refined yet offbeat sense of materiality, and above all, a subtle irreverence are staple elements of fashion designer Consuelo Castiglioni’s collections for Marni, the upscale Milanese label she founded in 1994 with her husband, Gianni, the company’s C.E.O.