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Why Renzo Piano’s Botín Centre in Santander is (Not) the New Guggenheim

January 14, 2017 · by · in Architecture, Centro Botin · 14 Comments

It happened just before Christmas. El País published a full-length article about Renzo Piano’s Botín Centre in Santander. Around the same time, the Botín Centre was included in an article on the BBC website entitled Buildings to Look Out For in 2017. In a bid to head off the inevitable “Guggenheimification” of Santander, I jotted down “10 Reasons Why […]

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Anticipation Building at Renzo Piano’s Botin Centre

September 26, 2015 · by · in Architecture, Art & Culture, Centro Botin · 19 Comments

My camera and I have spent the last month hanging around park benches in Santander looking suspicious. In addition to helping a woman into an ambulance and wondering why so many kids weren’t back in school when they should be, I did manage to survey the work since I last blogged about the Botin Centre one year […]