Architecture studio Renzo Piano Building Workshop has unveiled renderings of its concept for a three-storey cultural centre in south Florida, USA.
Located in downtown Boca Raton, The Center for Arts & Innovation will contain public event and education spaces and have a capacity of 6,000 guests.
Renzo Piano Building Workshop has unveiled images of a cultural centre in Florida
Plans for the center were announced late last year and the building is one of just two to three new commissions accepted by Renzo Piano annually, according to the studio.
The design phase for the project will continue over the next 18 months, allowing the project "to transcend its impact far beyond South Florida".
It will contain public performance, event and education spaces over three floors "When you're designing a conceptual plan as an architect, you're often designing something that you don't know, yet, exactly what it will be," said Renzo Piano Building Workshop founder Renzo Piano.
"It's about inventing. It's about starting and working and seeing," he continued. "We're at the beginning and so what you see in these early designs ? it's not printed in stone. Rather, it's the beginning of what we're inventing and of something really unique."
Glass encloses the base of the building, while the third story is opaque and sits on top
The building's programming will take place across three storeys, with one section of the building dedicated to a large multi-purp...