Building Workshop

Renzo Piano Antonio Belvedere

Founding Partner, Chairman Partner-director

In charge of the V-A-C Cultural Space,

Company Profile Renzo Piano was born in in 1937 Born in 1969, Antonio Belvedere graduated into a family of builders. in architecture from the University of The Renzo Piano Building Workshop While studying at Politecnico of Florence. He joined RPBW’s (RPBW) is an international architectural University, he worked in the office of office in 1999, working on phase three practice with offices in Paris and Genoa. Franco Albini. of the Fiat Lingotto factory conversion In 1971, he set up the “Piano & Rogers” project, particularly on the design of the The Workshop is led by eight partner- office in together with Richard Polytechnic and the Pinacoteca Agnelli. directors, including the founder and Pritzker Rogers, with whom he won the competition He was subsequently lead on Prize laureate, architect Renzo Piano, and for the . He subsequently the masterplan for ’s 3 partners. The company permanently moved to Paris. Manhattanville development in New York. employs nearly 130 people. Our 90- From the early to the 1990s, he Following promotion to Associate in 2004, plus are from all around the worked with the engineer , he worked on the masterplan for the ex- world, each selected for their experience, sharing the Atelier Piano & Rice from 1977 Falck area in Milan. enthusiasm and calibre. to 1981. He became a Partner in 2011. Recently The company’s staff has the expertise to In 1981, the “Renzo Piano Building completed projects include the City provide full architectural design services, Workshop” was established, with 150 staff Gate in Malta. He is now leading the design from concept design stage to construction and offices in Paris, Genoa, and New York. of the Bishop Ranch project in California, supervision. Our design skills also include He has received numerous awards and a Performing Arts Center in India and interior design, town planning and urban recognitions among which: the Royal Gold most recently, the V-A-C cultural project in design, landscape design and exhibition Medal at the RIBA in London (1989), the Moscow. design services. Kyoto Prize in Kyoto, Japan (1990), the He has lectured widely. Some of his Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO (1994), most recent lectures include EASA Links Since its formation in 1981, RPBW has the in , Japan (European Architecture Student Assembly) successfully undertaken and completed (1995), the Pritzker Architecture Prize at in Malta, August 2015 and “Stone and over 120 projects across Europe, North the White House in Washington (1998), the Architecture” at SIPPA (Salon International America, Australasia and East Asia. Leone d’oro alla Carriera in Venice (2000), Professionnels du Patrimoine), Arles, Among its best known works are: the Menil the Gold Medal AIA in Washington (2008) France, May 2015. Collection in , Texas; the Kansai and the in Copenhagen International Airport Terminal Building in (2009). ; the Kanak Cultural Center in New Since 2004 he has also been working for Caledonia; the in ; the Renzo Piano Foundation, a non-profit the Auditorium; the Maison Hermès organization dedicated to the promotion in Tokyo; the Morgan Library and the New of the architectural profession through York Times Building in ; and educational programs and educational the California Academy of Sciences in activities. The new headquarters was . Recently completed works established in Punta Nave (Genoa), in include in London, and the new June 2008. Whitney Museum in New York. In September 2013 Renzo Piano was appointed senator for life by the Italian The quality of RPBW’s work has been President and in May recognised by over 70 design awards, 2014 he received the Columbia University including major awards from the American Honorary Degree. Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).