Renzo Piano centre Kanak Kulturzentrum der Kanak Cultural center of the Kanak people
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Renzo Piano centre Kanak = Kulturzentrum der Kanak = Cultural center of the Kanak people
Birkhäuser Verlag, c2001
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Translations: german into english: Katja Steiner ; french into german: Barbara Heber-Schärer ; french into english: Sarah Parsons
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The cultural centre in Noumea - 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 techiques from the West in a visually stunning way. Piano's wooden shell structures and state-of-the-art technology is a dramatic contrast to the blossoming island landscape. With his expressive duotone photographs, Werner Blaser captures the essence of this extraordinary building from outside and from within.
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