'IS THE ANODYNE REALLY AN ANTIDOTE TO THE ICONIC?'

摘要

An anti-icon? Toby Stewart, co-project architect for the Whitney, looks bemused by the very suggestion. But the Renzo Piano Building Workshop's new gallery is notably reserved even for a practice that veers between the showmanship of the Shard or the Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre for New Caledonia and the well-mannered Art Institute of Chicago extension or the stately Beyeler Foundation in Basel.