a+u Magazine – January Issue #652: Renzo Piano Building Workshop 2010 - 2025

This special issue of a+u magazine highlights 25 projects, covering the past 15 years and including several works currently in progress. With studios in Genoa and Paris, RPBW has developed a unique ability to design within historic and culturally complex cities such as London, Istanbul, and New York. Each project is rooted in an analytical process that places the human experience at the center - responding to history, context, and climate.

Whether in harmony with its surroundings or in thoughtful tension, RPBW’s architecture embraces the specificities of place. The firm’s ongoing commitment to lightness, sustainability, and innovation is evident in both monumental works like the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens and in more intimate, human-centered projects such as the Children’s Surgical Hospital in Uganda, where local building methods are combined with cutting-edge technology.

Through detailed features and essays, this issue captures the workshop’s design ethos - an architecture that is environmentally conscious, structurally elegant, and deeply engaged with the public realm.

Essays by Fulvio Irace and Nicolai Ouroussoff provide deeper insight into RPBW’s architectural journey and values.