Renzo Piano - Centre Kanak Kulturzentrum Der Kanak/Cultural Center of the Kanak People

The cultural centre in Noum a - unquestionably one of the Pritzker prize winner Renzo Piano's finest works. From 1993-1998 Italian architect Renzo Piano built a new cultural centre in Noumea, New Caledonia to commemorate the forthcoming independence of the Pacific Island. Beginning with a round wooden building, a traditional feature of Kanak culture, Piano went on to develop and create a structure which blends the memory of Melanesian culture with modern techniques from the West in a visually stunning way. Piano's wooden shell structures and state-of-the-art technology is a dramatic contrast to the blossoming island landscape. With his expressive duotone photographs, Werner Blaser captures the essence of this extraordinary building from outside and from within.Blaser, Werner is the author of 'Renzo Piano - Centre Kanak Kulturzentrum Der Kanak/Cultural Center of the Kanak People' with ISBN 9783764365400 and ISBN 3764365404.