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Renzo Piano at Atlanta
New project in Atlanta for Genova based architect Renzo Piano is the extension (100 million dollar’s worth) of the Woodruff Arts Center – one of the four biggest cultural institutions in the US which brings together the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta College of Art, the home of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the High Museum of Art. The aim is to overhaul and bring up to date the building, constructed in 1968.
The first phase of the project – which also includes a series of piazzas, walkways and open air sculptures – will start in January 2002 and is intended as a kind of village providing a new way to connect the campus to the city. 21,000 square metres (226,000 square feet) of new services and public spaces (including a large piazza, a new student residence, a series of studios and workshops with a glazed frontage, a new wing and a lobby for the High Museum of Art). A series of glazed bridges will link Piano’s building to the museum designed by Richard Meier.