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"PIANO: Of course we repeat; we repeat what we like! It’s not because we are lazy people; it’s not because we want to repeat ourselves."

As much as I’d like to give Renzo Piano the benefit of the doubt, he’s built the same building too many times now. The Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas), the Modern Wing of the Chicago Art Institute, the High Museum expansion (Atlanta), and the Morgan Library (New York) are all essentially copies of his most noted museum commission, the Menil Collection in Houston. He’s really become a one-trick pony where museums are concerned – white/beige/glass box, long galleries, overhead skylights, lather, rinse, repeat. Take away the grass roof, and even his California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco) is another oblong box o’ skylights; he’s also worn out that piazza metaphor with many of these projects.

Piano has created in some intriguing designs for corporate commissions (Vulcano Buono, Weltstadthaus) and European institutions (Zentrum Paul Klee, the Padre Pio church), but he keeps knocking out these self-plagiarizing white boxes with skylights for American museums. Unlike, say, Richard Meier, who seems to be incapable of designing with anything by white paint and a straght-edge, Piano has proven he can do better work – he apparently just doesn’t want to.

Piano’s building an addition for the museum that inspired the Menil Collection, the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. You’ll never guess what he’s building for them: A white box with skylights.

This is really sweet, and at a cool million less than what they are asking for for the desecrated Paul Williams down the street a great deal to boot!

@Joshua: It would be impossible to name all the musical royalty who have worked at EASTWEST STUDIOS, but here are some of them (in alphabetical order) Christina Aguilera, Herb Albert, America, Paul Anka, Fiona Apple, Audioslave, Franky Avalon, Barenaked Ladies, Better Than Ezra, Blondie, Buffalo Springfield, Burt Bacharach, Beach Boys, Blink 182, Glen Campbell, Canned Heat, Vickie Carr, Carpenters, Johnny Cash, David Cassidy, Ray Charles, Chicago, Petula Clarke, Ry Cooder, Elvis Costello, Count Basie & Orchestra, Eric Clapton, Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole, Ornette Coleman, Duane Eddy, Jan & Dean, John Coltrane, Petula Clark, Joe Cocker, Sam Cooke, Bing Crosby, Bobby Darin, Sammy Davis Jnr, Jackie DeShannon, Duke Ellington, Neil Diamond, Fifth Dimension, Bob Dylan, Ellla Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman Big Band, Grateful Dead, Grass Roots, Green Day, Guess Who, Lani Hall, Herbie Hancock, Hawaii Five-O theme, Don Ho, Whitney Houston, Howlin’ Wolf, Janis Ian, Ike & Tina Turner, Incubus, Isley Brothers, Michael Jackson, Elton John, Stan Keaton, Carole King, Kris Kristofferson, Franky Laine, K.D. Lang, Avril Laverne, Godfather Theme, Michel LeGrand, Peggy Lee, Little Feat, Trini Lopez, Madonna, Mamas & the Papas, Dean Martin, MASH theme, Johnny Mathis, Meatloaf, Sergio Mendez & Brazil 66, Metallica, Johnny Mercer, Paul McCartney, Barry Manilow, Scott McKenzie, Natalie Merchant, Bette Midler, Mission Impossible theme, Monkees, Alanis Morrissette, Motley Crue, Muse, Rick Nelson, Willie Nelson, Wayne Newton, Harry Nilsson, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Ozzy Osborne, Partridge Family, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Pointer Sisters, Iggy Pop, Elvis Presley, Lisa Marie Presley, Billy Preston, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Kenny Rogers, Rolling Stones, Ronnie & the Ronettes, Bonnie Raitt, Helen Reddy, R.E.M., Nelson Riddle, Righteous Brothers, Johnny Rivers, Ronnie & the Ronnettes, Dianna Ross, Santana, Jimmy Smith, Sonny & Cher, Phil Spector, Tom Scott, Carly Simon, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen, Steppenwolf, Rod Stewart, Mathew Sweet, Stone Temple Pilots, Barbra Streisand, System of a Down, Temptations, The Animals, The Association, The Four Tops, The GoGos, The Kingston Trio, The O’Jays, The Vines, The Who, Mel Torme, U2, Richie Valens, Stevie Wonder, Tool, Turtles, Sarah Vaughn, Jimmy Webb, Weezer, Andy Williams, Nancy Wilson, Young Rascals, Frank Zappa.

Carlos Slim lost about $200 million on this. He was carrying a $387 million note that the Candy’s defaulted on.
Yes – Waldorf is dead.
Shame about the old Robinson’s being torn down. Many don’t know it was designed by Paul Williams.

Mr. Paul Williams did know how to design a lovely house. Wish there were more like him around nowadays.

IF you could see an original Paul Wms house, you would see how many beautiful and functional details were obliterated in this bland, 1990s erasure. So sad.

I stayed at a magnificent Paul Williams house 20 years ago, the Fred Price house, which Williams has said was one of his favorites. It’s a Mediterranean in Pacific Palisades. The owners LOVED this house and meticulously restored it, keeping all the amazing Malibu tile in the bathrooms, the hidden bar in the den, and, AN INDOOR POOL, on a beautiful lot overlooking the ocean. This particular house became my "gold standard." I’ve been in bigger and grander, but this house was so well designed, constructed and appointed that everything else pales in comparison.

@Michael Locke:

Ripping out all the original tile and replacing every fixture with restoration hardware is a disgrace to paul williams. These people don’t belong restoring homes, they belong in Orange County in a McMansion.

he gutted a paul williams? and he’s advertising it as a paul williams home? that’s reprehensible.

Lovely home on the BEST street in prime Silver Lake….BUT it looks like the bathrooms and kitchens have been sadly "updated." I am certain those rooms would have been much more lovely and gracious when designed by Paul Williams. Now they are generic at best. GENERIC.

Anyone who knows the work of Paul Williams and is going to pay the premium to want one of his works is going to want original tile and such as he had such a lovely and deft touch with the little details. It is where he would truly sing as an architect.

If the original bathrooms were indeed pulled out instead of restored as I suspect they were I would think $500,000 should be taken off of the asking price.

It’s quite sad really.