EXHIBITION
Piece by Piece
Inside the Renzo Piano Building Workshop
EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 2, 2022
Tuesdays to Thursdays | 12PM – 6PM
Fridays and Saturdays | 12PM – 8PM
Sundays | 12PM – 6 PM
Holiday Mondays | 12PM – 6PM
Artport Gallery
Harbourfront Centre
235 Queens Quay West | Toronto ON
Large gallery located in the middle of the main building
Doors will remain open during gallery hours
Free Event | Open to the public | Wheelchair Accessible
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This exhibition comprises 11 projects designed to reflect RPBWs’ working process. The selected works present the diversity in geography and time of the architectural production. Visitors experience a world-tour of sorts that provides impressions of the firms’ DNA, connecting vastly different projects by a design approach that is driven by the specific context of each site, and by a fundamental objective of designing “places for people”.
As a world-class architecture firm, the Building Workshop’s work is also motivated by careful consideration of the construction process. It is a method that places importance on how the architecture is created at the forefront, from the very beginning of each project being designed “piece by piece”.
The exhibition provides a glimpse of this collective cross-disciplinary process that exists within the workshop. The selection of projects includes the Centre Pompidou (1977), The California Academy of Sciences (2008), the London “Shard” (2012), the Emergency – Children’s Hospital in Uganda (2021) and the soon-to-be-completed New Toronto Courthouse.
Co-presented by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Consulate General of Italy in Toronto and Harbourfront Centre.