The Centro Botín in Santander, designed by ‘starchitect’ Renzo Piano, aims to be as invisible as possible from the city centre and to serve the local community as its primary mission.
Almost 20 years since Frank Gehry’s $100m titanium-clad Guggenheim Bilbao opened, another city on Spain’s north coast is getting a major contemporary art centre designed by an internationally acclaimed “starchitect”. The Centro Botín, Renzo Piano’s first big commission in the country, opens i... Keep reading on The Art Newspaper
Almost 20 years since Frank Gehry’s $100m titanium-clad Guggenheim Bilbao opened, another city on Spain’s north coast is getting a major contemporary art centre designed by an internationally acclaimed “starchitect”. The Centro Botín, Renzo Piano’s first big commission in the country, opens i... Keep reading on The Art Newspaper