“He could draw there, watch soccer matches and play the piano for hours,” he said of his father’s time at the pied-à-terre. Image The architect Rafael Viñoly rented an apartment near his ...

(Emma Lee/WHYY) Ax said he never had a problem with the standard straight piano keyboard and does not expect the curve to feel much different. “I don’t know that it makes things a lot easier,” he said ...

Rafael Viñoly died on March 2 in New York ... Viñoly shared his love for playing classical music on the piano. “When I’m playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely ...

Rafael Viñoly, the famed Uruguayan architect who designed ... which he told The New York Times was his “only big indulgence.” “When I’m playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely ...

Bernstein Rafael Viñoly, a Uruguayan-born architect ... “Not many people thought the piano needed to be reinvented,” said the architect David Rockwell, who worked with Mr. Viñoly on several ...

Rafael Viñoly, the extraordinary Uruguay-born ... He was also an avid pianist and last year, with piano maker Chris Maene, the architect revealed a concert grand with a curved keyboard for ...

Rafael Viñoly, a Uruguay-born architect who ... He once described his normal workday as spending the morning at the piano (he had been an accomplished young pianist and once considered a career ...

The instrument is a collaboration between piano maker Chris Maene and the late architect Rafael Viñoly, who died earlier this year. The New York Times reports that the idea stemmed from a conversation ...

Rafael Viñoly, the Uruguayan architect who ... Outside of architecture, Viñoly enjoyed playing classical piano. He is survived by his wife, Diana, his son, Román, stepsons Nicolás and ...

Rafael Viñoly, 78, died after a long and prolific design career ... and the concert hall for Jazz at Lincoln Center. Throughout his life, the piano remained Viñoly’s “one major indulgence,” according ...

Rafael started piano lessons at the age of five ... It was the project that made Vinoly’s international name, one that he referred to as "the Grand Central Station of Tokyo".

Madison Group, a Toronto–based development firm, announced recently its plans to build four new towers designed by Rafael Viñoly ... public space will feature a piano, and other amenities.