Italian architect Renzo Piano has gone from building Europe's tallest building (the Shard in London) to one of its smallest. Finally completing his career-long dream of building a micro house that ...

Exorbitant rents have made microapartments popular in crowded cities like New York, San Francisco, and Paris, but Pritzker Prize laureate Renzo Piano believes that small spaces have a special gravity.

Renzo Piano has become the latest high-profile architect to add a building to the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, by completing a tiny wooden cabin with room for just a single inhabitant. The ...

The Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany welcomes its newest building from Renzo Piano, "Diogene". Named after the Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope, the wooden unit is a small home designed to ...

About a decade ago, Piano started developing plans for a minimalist home. He had been interested in the concept since his student days, and he began doing the work on spec, without a specific client.

Text description provided by the architects. Over the years, furniture company Vitra has made a name for itself as one of the most architecturally-enlightened companies in the world, with their ...

I was completely inspired by this mini cabin–aptly named Diogene and designed as a self-sufficient hideaway by one of my favorite architects, Renzo Piano. I was completely inspired by this mini ...

The Unusual destiny of two disused tramlines in a roundabout. The Progetto Diogene’s artists have spent years combing the city of Turin for residual, interstitial spaces of various shapes and sizes ...