The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released designs yesterday for its 300,000-square-foot Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which will be located in the May Company Wilshire Building in ...

“I cross a bit my fingers,” Renzo Piano told me. “It may work. We shall see.” We were standing inside the concrete shell of the main auditorium of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, an ambitious ...

L.A.’s new museum for movies makes an appropriately cinematic debut. Photo: Iwan Baan, Courtesy Academy Museum Foundation It’s a ball! It’s a globe! (But please, please don’t call it the Death Star.) ...

High-profile documentary “Renzo Piano, the Architect of Light” by Spanish director Carlos Saura will world premiere at Italy’s Biografilm Festival, the unique event billed as a cinematic celebration ...

Ninety years after Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford first floated the idea of creating a museum for the movie business, the completion of Hollywood’s first major movie museum is finally nearing.

Work is now complete on the Renzo Piano Building Workshop's much-anticipated Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California. The project involved renovating the iconic 1930s Saban ...

A very special building, the Botín Center.The architect, a contemporary genius, Renzo Piano.The director, another contemporary genius, Carlos Saura. Carlos Saura and Renzo Piano will unfold their view ...

“It’s a soap bubble. It’s a flying ship. It’s a flying vessel, dirigible, zeppelin,” says an impassioned Renzo Piano. “But it’s not a ‘Death Star.’ It’s not about that.” Piano is seated inside the ...

With 16 tables arranged in rows over two rooms, the Royal Academy show looks more like a busy office or a reading room than an exhibition. Subtitled The Art of Making Buildings, it tells the story of ...

A brave new world rises from a sprawling model island that seems to levitate off the spotless floor of the Royal Academy’s new architecture galleries. As part of the inaugural exhibition Renzo Piano: ...