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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 04.12.08 05:33 UTC

Fort Worth's Kimbell museum doubling exhibit space with project

FORT WORTH, Texas -- The Kimbell Art Museum will double its exhibit space in a $70 million, two-year expansion project, officials announced. Renowned architect Renzo Piano unveiled his preliminary ...

guardian.co.uk, 03.11.08 01:00 UTC

Jonathan Glancey on Renzo Piano's Academy of Sciences

. Renzo Piano's Academy of Sciences. Photograph: Shunji Ishida How invisible should a major public building be? How invisible can a major public building be? These thoughts must have crossed Renzo ...

San Francisco Chronicle, 05.10.08 16:03 UTC

4 new buildings that enrich San Francisco

With last month's opening of the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco's crash course in 21st century architecture is now complete. The academy is the final member of a quartet of provocative ...

BBC Technology, 25.09.08 11:03 UTC

Future of history

Claude the albino alligator relaxes in a swamp complete with a heated rock while all around him workmen battle against the clock to put the finishing touches to the largest public green building in the world.

San Francisco Chronicle, 21.09.08 19:32 UTC

Openness a virtue at new Academy of Sciences

When the California Academy of Sciences opens the doors of its new home Saturday on the Music Concourse at Golden Gate Park, visitors are sure to linger over such exotica as the albino alligator in ...