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    Renzo Piano's expansion of the High Museum of Art respectfully echoes the exterior detailing of Richard Meier's original building.
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    Renzo Piano's 2006 addition to the Morgan Library in New York provides a new entry to the complex.
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    The glass-and-steel addition to the Morgan Library connects the existing buildings on the site.
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    The glass-enclosed lobby of the New York Times Building allows views from the street through to an internal courtyard with birch trees.
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    A grid of ceramic rods shades the heavily glazed exterior of the 52-story New York Times Building, which opened in 2007.
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    Although the overall form of the 2001 Niccolo Paganini Auditorium in Parma, Italy, is one of Piano's more traditional designs, the subtle sophistication of both structure and finish still hint at his high-tech leanings.
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    The Parco della Musica (2002) in Rome comprises three large auditoriums built around a central amphitheater, interspersed with the remains of an ancient villa.
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    The interiors of all three auditoriums of the Parco della Musica are finished in cherry wood.
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    Inside one of the three undulating forms of the Zentrum Paul Klee (2005) in Bern, Switzerland.
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    The Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center (1998) in New Caledonia comprises ten pavilions modeled after the traditional huts of the Kanak people, to which the center is devoted.
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