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Architecture studio Renzo Piano Building Workshop has completed the extension to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, doubling the gallery space originally designed by American architect Louis Kahn (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Italian architect Renzo Piano has finished a major new park, library and theatre complex in Athens, following one of the largest donations for a cultural building project in history (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

These photographs show the bulbous form of Renzo Piano's almost-complete Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, which nestles within a Parisian urban block. (more...) View the full article

News: an exhibition of drawings, photographs, models and videos documenting work by Italian architect Renzo Piano opens on Thursday at the Gagosian Gallery in New York. (more...) View the full article

Renzo Piano designed one of high-tech architecture's seminal buildings – the Centre Pompidou. Continuing our high-tech architecture series we profile the Italian architect who was a key figure in the largely British-led movement. Read more View the full article

Renzo Piano has become the latest architect to contribute a design to the major redevelopment of Sydney's Barangaroo South waterfront (+ movie). (more…)

Another skyscraper is set for San Francisco's SoMa district, this time by Italian architect Renzo Piano. Read more View the full article

Renzo Piano Building Workshop has unveiled images detailing its design for a 25-storey residential tower in New York's Soho. (more…) View the full article

Architect Renzo Piano has been called upon to lead reconstruction efforts in towns left devastated by the earthquake that struck central Italy last week, and to mitigate against future disasters. (more…) View the full article

New construction images of the Renzo Piano-designed Academy Museum of Motion Pictures have emerged, which actor Tom Hanks revealed at the Oscars will open this year. Read more View the full article

Next in our high-tech architecture series is Renzo Piano's Kansai International Airport, which was built on an artificial island in Osaka Bay. Read more View the full article

Billowing fabric mushrooms by New York designers Situ Studio have cropped up in the great hall of the Brooklyn Museum. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The soles and uppers of these shoes separate easily so you can repair them yourself. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A jungle of bushy ferns and sprouting begonias fills the windows of Replay’s Barcelona boutique. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The next sculpture to be erected on the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square will be a winged bull by artist Michael Rakowitz, which is based on an ancient Iraqi artefact destroyed by Islamic militant group ISIS. Read more View the full article

A replica of the Palmyra Arch – a 2,000-year-old Syrian architectural landmark believed to have been destroyed by Islamic militant group ISIS – has been erected in London's Trafalgar Square. (more…) View the full article

News: the Royal Institute of British Architects has called on students to report companies offering unpaid architecture internships and said it "deplores any architects treating students this way". (more...) View the full article

Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photos of the Republic of Korea Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 by Mass Studies. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish architects BIG and Paris studio OFF have won a competition to design a research centre for Sorbonne Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Researchers at the University of Stuttgart programmed a robot to wind 60 kilometres of carbon and glass fibre filaments into this pavilion inspired by a lobster's exoskeleton (+ movie + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Scientists at a Spanish university are developing a new type of concrete that captures rainwater to create living walls of moss and fungi. (more...) View the full article

News: a research team in Zürich has created a flock of helicopter robots that can detect each others' positions and join together to create a larger flying machine. (more...) View the full article

News: researchers at Bristol University in the UK have developed a way for users to get tactile feedback from touchscreens while controlling them with gestures in mid-air. (more...) View the full article

Ancient building material cob has been brought up to contemporary standards by a team of British and French researchers, who see it as an environmentally friendly option for homes. Read more

Athens studio Tense Architecture Network has completed a concrete house that staggers down a hillside in rural Greece (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article