Turkey’s leading museum for contemporary art, the Istanbul Modern, has announced it will close on March 18 as preparations begin for its new home designed by the Italian starchitect Renzo Piano.

Renowned Italian starchitect Renzo Piano's firm recently completed a new energy efficient museum on the waterfront in Istanbul, Turkey. The building features a complex structural system that mitigates ...

Designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano, the building boasts a footprint of 110,000 square feet, with dedicated space for temporary and permanent exhibitions, educational programs ...

The Istanbul Modern, founded in 2004, returns to its original location on the historic Karaköy waterfront on the European side of the Bosporus, in a striking new contemporary architectural statement ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Poking up above the steep slopes of Istanbul’s Karaköy neighbourhood is the pointed, fairytale form of the ...

Türkiye’s first museum of modern and contemporary art Istanbul Modern reopened its doors to visitors in a new building designed by internationally acclaimed architect Renzo Piano Building Workshop.

In December 2004, Istanbul's first modern art museum, Istanbul Modern, opened in a former warehouse in the port of Karakoy on the Bosphorus. The pleasant but dilapidated port building had been ...

Seven years in progress, the new Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW)–designed Istanbul Modern Museum will open on May 4. Opening to views of the Bosphorus, the museum sits across the water from ...

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 ...