Editing Renzo Piano (section)

===Modern wing of the Art Institute of Chicago (2000–2009)===
In 2000 the City of Chicago launched a major program of cultural buildings in [[Millennium Park]] with a new concert hall by [[Frank Gehry]] and a new wing of the beaux-arts building [[Art Institute of Chicago]]. With its construction of glass, steel and white stone, the new wing is carefully harmonized with the old structure, and, like his other art museums, makes maximum use of natural light. A horizontal sunscreen on the roof, nicknamed the "flying carpet", is a graceful update of his rooftop art museum on the Lingotto factory in Turin.{{Sfn|Jodidio|2016|page=71}}  He also designed a minimalist  {{convert|620|ft|m|adj=on}} steel bridge connecting the sculpture terrace of the museum to Millennium Park.<ref>{{cite news|author=Ouroussof, Nicolai |title=Renzo Piano Embraces Chicago (slide show) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/05/13/arts/20090513_INSTITUTE_SLIDESHOW_index.html |date=13 May 2009 |work=The New York Times |access-date=13 May 2009}}</ref> Nikolai Ouroussof, critic of the ''New York Times'', noted that some aspects of the building recalled the work of [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]], who had made much of his career in Chicago. "The taut forms and refined details, the elevation of an industrial aesthetic to an art form all are hallmarks of Mies's work." But he noted particularly Piano's masterful control of light within the building:  "...it is the light that most people will notice.... The glass roof of the top-floor galleries is supported on delicate steel trusses. Rows of white blades rest on top of the trusses to filter out strong southern light; thin fabric panels soften the view from below... On a clear afternoon you can catch faint glimpses through the structural frame of clouds drifting by overhead. But most of the time the art takes center stage, everything else fading quietly into the background It is this obsessive refinement that raises Mr. Piano's best architecture to the level of art."<ref name="Ouroussof, Nicolai-2009">{{cite news |author=Ouroussof, Nicolai |title=Renzo Piano Embraces Chicago |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/arts/design/14muse.html |date=14 May 2009 |work=The New York Times |access-date=16 February 2017}}</ref>