Renzo Piano
18 results

Genoa moves beyond tragedy as new bridge close to completion
- Europe
- April 29, 2020, 16:20
On the 14th day of each month, the relatives of some of those who died in the collapse of Genoa’s Morandi bridge tie flowers to railings close to the (...)

Aosdána functions as way of hiding fact that arts funding is shamefully low
- Music
- July 24, 2019, 05:00
Irish composer Jennifer Walshe has been elected to Germany’s Akademie der Künste, the Berlin-based academy of arts that was founded as long ago as 169(...)

An Engineer Imagines review: A fascinating study of an Irish pioneer
- Film
- February 28, 2019, 06:00
You wait a lifetime for a documentary on a structural engineer and then two arrive in the space of a few weeks – with both on the same structural engi(...)

Destination design: 10 hot spots to see in 2019
- Art & Design
- January 5, 2019, 00:00
V&A Dundee Scotland’s first design museum opened in September in a stunning building designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma that looks like se(...)

Claire Foy: ‘Pain plays a big part in all the characters I play’
- Film
- November 10, 2018, 05:00
To the Rome Film Festival for the world premiere of The Girl in the Spider’s Web. You picture limousines jockeying for position on the Via Veneto. You(...)

The life of the Irish ‘magician’ behind the Sydney Opera House
- Homes & Property
- September 27, 2018, 00:00
A theatre lit solely by the moon bookends a new film about the brilliant Irish engineer Peter Rice. Using the same title as the book he wrote just bef(...)

Finding a different Malta
- Travel
- September 16, 2017, 06:00
I fell in love with Maltese stone on my first visit in 2012. The buttery tones of Valletta’s sculptural edifices warmed my heart; I had never realised(...)

52 Places to Go in 2017
- Travel
- January 11, 2017, 12:30
1. Canada: A world to explore. Canada has cosmopolitan cities, barely explored natural wonders and everything in between. Canada is huge — the s(...)

Airports in terminal decline
- Travel
- April 16, 2016, 03:13
One morning in 1977 Brian Eno, electronica pioneer and former synthesiser player for Roxy Music, was sitting in an airport in Cologne, in what was th(...)

Paddy McKillen’s blend of wine and art in Provence
- Interiors
- February 13, 2016, 06:00
In the low late January sunshine, uniform rows of bare vines roll out towards the distant Luberon mountains. By summer this landscape will be ablaze (...)