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It’s proving to be an incredibly fruitful spring for Renzo Piano Building Workshop: no sooner had the firm enjoyed the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the shimmering Intesa Sanpaolo Bank in Turin, they were expected across the Atlantic for another major inauguration. An industrial powerhouse for art, the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan is easily…