Real Architecture: Renzo Piano, RPBW, presents New York Times Building, New York
15 April 2008
Courtesy Jack Goffe.
Renzo Piano and Jonathan Glancey. Courtesy Jack Goffe.
It's been hailed as New York City's best skyscraper in 40 years and its
architect is a heavyweight of building design with a CV that includes
the design of the Pompidou Centre to masterplanning the rebuild of the
Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. The recently completed New York Times Building
is heralded as being beautifully subtle and lacking in ego; a
reflection, the architect claims, of the paper it houses.
Piano addressed the issues of building skyscrapers in a post 9/11 city and the
architectural, spatial needs of an organisation that is, by nature, 24
hour and high octane.
Chaired by Jonathan Glancey, Architecture Critic, The Guardian.
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Real Architecture Spring 2008
Spring's showcase of the most important buildings being created across the world today, presented by their designers. Series includes Urban Splash, Renzo Piano, Herzog and de Meuron, Sergison Bates and Foreign Office Architects.
