After architectural wonders of London’s Central St. Giles last year, is the skyscraper of the New York Times to be the protagonist of the trip proposed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop a Cersaie 2011 (Galleria dell’Architettura, Saturday 24 September at 11.00). “A skyscraper with a human face”, the designers of the RPBW define it. ” Presenting the fascinating project in the Big Apple – and its “alter ego”, the headquarters of the Morgan Library – will be the Genoese architect Giorgio Bianchi, Piano collaborator since 1985. Through a story in images he will reconstruct the history of the two buildings starting from 2001, from that walk with Renzo Piano through the rubble of the Twin Towers.
“The message that can and will be given through architecture – observed Bianchi – is to give birth to this tragedy the opportunity to rethink the role of these buildings in the panorama of the city”. There tower of the historic New York newspaper is a light and vibrant building, important yet transparent and almost “immaterial” at the same time, able to adapt to the seasons, almost to change with the wind.
The Morgan Library, almost an overturned skyscraper, dug into the very hard rock millennial of the soil of Manhattan, it is an underground treasure trove of art and culture. In addition to these two buildings, it will touch on two projects currently under construction: the headquarters of Columbia University and the new Whitney Museum.
To close the cycle of events on the 2011 calendar of the review “Building, Living, Thinking”, Aldo Colonetti, philosopher, historian and theorist of art, design and architecture – as well as scientific director, since 1998, of the IED Group.
After architectural wonders of London’s Central St. Giles last year, is the skyscraper of the New York Times to be the protagonist of the trip proposed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop a Cersaie 2011 (Galleria dell’Architettura, Saturday 24 September at 11.00). “A skyscraper with a human face”, the designers of the RPBW define it. ” Presenting the fascinating project in the Big Apple – and its “alter ego”, the headquarters of the Morgan Library – will be the Genoese architect Giorgio Bianchi, Piano collaborator since 1985. Through a story in images he will reconstruct the history of the two buildings starting from 2001, from that walk with Renzo Piano through the rubble of the Twin Towers.
“The message that can and will be given through architecture – observed Bianchi – is to give birth to this tragedy the opportunity to rethink the role of these buildings in the panorama of the city”. There tower of the historic New York newspaper is a light and vibrant building, important yet transparent and almost “immaterial” at the same time, able to adapt to the seasons, almost to change with the wind.
The Morgan Library, almost an overturned skyscraper, dug into the very hard rock millennial of the soil of Manhattan, it is an underground treasure trove of art and culture. In addition to these two buildings, it will touch on two projects currently under construction: the headquarters of Columbia University and the new Whitney Museum.
To close the cycle of events on the 2011 calendar of the review “Building, Living, Thinking”, Aldo Colonetti, philosopher, historian and theorist of art, design and architecture – as well as scientific director, since 1998, of the IED Group.
