Piano to design Greek center
Renzo Piano, the architect who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1998, has been chosen to build a cultural center in Greece that will house the country’s new opera house and national library.
Piano, 70, a native of Genoa, Italy, will develop a 42-acre property on the coast near the center of Athens, the capital, according to a statement from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, which commissioned the project. The site will house the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center with new opera and library facilities within an educational and cultural park.
The foundation has $442 million for the center and will hand over the project to the Greek state on completion.
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