Renzo Piano

Istanbul's museum of modern art, Istanbul Modern, moved on May 4 into a new building overlooking the Bosphorus Strait, designed by Renzo Piano, the Italian-born architect of London's Shard skyscraper and the Pompidou Center in Paris.

Established in 2004, the Istanbul Modern in 2018 moved out of a rustic building that once served as a customs warehouse.

The new building and exhibitions of Istanbul Modern, Türkiye's first modern and contemporary art museum, has opened on May 4. The official opening ceremony of the museum will be held later.

Los Angeles is finally getting a museum for movies - and it's about time, said Tom Hanks, as he welcomed journalists to a special pre-opening event on Sept. 21.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) on Athens's southern coast has been included among the nominees in the international section of the 2018 awards by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Acclaimed Italian architect Renzo Piano, designer of the Greek capital's emblematic Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) among other iconic projects around the world, presents "Piece by Piece" at the SNFCC's Lighthouse through July 23.

In 1971, 34-year-old Renzo Piano and his contemporaries Richard Rogers from the UK and Gianfranco Franchini from Italy pulled the rug out from under the architectural world when they were awarded the construction of the grandiose Centre Pompidou in Paris.