{"id":167673,"date":"2023-07-17T00:22:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T05:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/renzo-piano-wraps-istanbul-modern-in-facade-evocative-of-fish-scales"},"modified":"2023-07-17T00:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T05:22:50","slug":"renzo-piano-wraps-istanbul-modern-in-facade-evocative-of-fish-scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/renzo-piano-wraps-istanbul-modern-in-facade-evocative-of-fish-scales","title":{"rendered":"Renzo Piano wraps Istanbul Modern in facade \u201cevocative of fish scales\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/renzo-piano-wraps-istanbul-modern-in-facade-evocative-of-fish-scales.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Italian architecture studio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/renzo-piano\/\">Renzo Piano Building Workshop<\/a> has completed the landmark Istanbul Modern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/museum\/\">museum<\/a>, which is its first project in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/turkey\/\">Turkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over 10,000 square metres in size, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.istanbulmodern.org\/en\">Istanbul Modern<\/a> is an art museum on Karak\u00f6y waterfront, a historic area in Istanbul where the Bosphorus and Golden Horn waterways meet.<\/p>\n<p>It has a top-heavy form made up of three stacked rectilinear volumes, designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpbw.com\/\">Renzo Piano Building Workshop<\/a> to evoke the shape of a ship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian architecture studio Renzo Piano Building Workshop has completed the landmark Istanbul Modern museum, which is its first project in Turkey. Over 10,000 square metres in size, Istanbul Modern is an art museum on Karak\u00f6y waterfront, a historic area in Istanbul where the Bosphorus and Golden Horn waterways meet. It has a top-heavy form made [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}