Bishop Ranch Architect Crafting Concepts For San Francisco's Skyline

SAN FRANCISCO, CA- World-renowned Italian architect touted locally for his concept design of San Ramon’s City Center Bishop Ranch, is leaving his touch on yet another piece of the bay area, this time across the San Francisco skyline, according to SFGate.

Renzo Piano, designer of the unique San Ramon shopping center set to begin construction later this year, is reportedly crafting a 37-story, 400-foot hotel and condominiums combo near the Transbay Transit Center on Howard Street in San Francisco, reports SFGate.

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Like the Bishop Ranch project, Piano’s concept will focus on bringing people and their surroundings together, in keeping with his premise that, “people need to meet each other to experience the kind of energy and magic on which the notion of a city is fundamentally based.”

SFGate says Piano is credited with designing the city’s most popular building of the decade, the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, as well as, for winning the Pritzker Architecture Prize and the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects. He is also reportedly one of a handful of architects in the running to design the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.

A press release from the firm highlights Piano's additional innovations on The Shard in London, Europe’s tallest skyscraper, and the acclaimed new Whitney Museum in New York City.

>>For more about Renzo Piano and his latest area project, read the full SFGate article here.

Photo courtesy of http://www.calacademy.org/