One of the things I like most about Renzo Piano is the art. Very few architects possess the dramatic spatial flair in their finished perspective renderings, and this, I feel, is a lost art. This (also from ArchRecord.com) is the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center in Greece. And now, when Piano designed it, he didn't have Paris Hilton in mind either. Although, given recent incidents, that could possibly be the legacy of the Niarchos family...
The construction of the $803 million Center will start later in 2011 and will finish by 2015. It will be situated along the Saronikos Kolpos waterfront in southern Athens and will showcase many of landscape elements from Stavros Niarchos Park, which covers a 42-acre parcel of land.
Part of the building will showcase a 1,400-seat theater for the Greek National Opera as well as a 400-seat experimental performance space. There will also be a library in the facility, which will be a renovated extension of an 1832 National Library which previously occupied the lot under construction.
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