Renzo Piano, Centre Kanak - Werner Blaser (signed)

Signed by Werner Blaser
Birkhäuser, 2001

The cultural centre in Noum a - unquestionably one of the Pritzker prize winner Renzo Piano’s finest works. From 1993-1998 Italian architect Renzo Piano built a new cultural centre in Noumea, New Caledonia to commemorate the forthcoming independence of the Pacific Island. Beginning with a round wooden building, a traditional feature of Kanak culture, Piano went on to develop and create a structure which blends the memory of Melanesian culture with modern techniques from the West in a visually stunning way.