Jean Nouvel Georges Batzios Architects   Greece   The principal project decisions are to design a ‘living garden’ based on the theme of archaeologies; to highlight the original colonnade facade; to extend the existing gardens; and to build a glass canopy as well as peripheral terraces...

Jean Nouvel   China   Split up by a covered central passageway connecting two streets – Ma Dang and Dan Shui – in Shanghai’s Huangpu district, this complex contains 25,000 square meters of office space and 15,000 of commercial units. The location is in what was part of th

Jean Nouvel   China   The sinuous forms of the four auditoriums establish a connection with the sea, evoking the history of the city as a fishing village. Inside, the use of a pearlescent material generates reflections as a symbolic fusion of water, music, and light. 

Jean Nouvel   France   A delicate bioclimate filter creates a perimetral communal space and gives a distinct character to a mixed-use tower located in Confluence, a new neighborhood in Lyon.

Jean Nouvel   Italy   Within the historical area of the city of Rome, three buildings have been turned into a cultural center containing exhibition halls, accommodations for artists, and a rooftop restaurant.

Jean Nouvel   Netherlands   Surrounded by an extraordinary landscape of polders, the building rises like a vertical sea vessel whose glass walls engage in a dialogue with the typical changing Dutch atmosphere.

Jean Nouvel   Qatar   The museum, the design of which is inspired by the forms of the desert rose, is part of an ambitious plan for cultural elevation that seeks to bind global modernity to local identity.

Jean Nouvel   France   The recently opened tower named Marsellesa rises 135 meters at Quais d'Arenc, close to the 142-meter headquarters of the French shipping company CMA CGM, built by Zaha Hadid Architects. The unique design of the gridded facade of concrete presents a g

Jean Nouvel   United Arab Emirates   Oliver Wainwright Hovering above the sandy shores of Saadiyat Island like an upturned colander washed up on the beach, the metal-domed roof of the Louvre Abu Dhabi doesn't give much away from the outside. A cluster of white blocks spreads out from be

Jean Nouvel   Qatar   Inspired by the whimsical crystal forms of desert roses, the museum uses its formal expressiveness to establish a link between the Bedouin culture and global modernity. An organic system of intersected disks stretches around the ancient Amiri Palace,

Jean Nouvel   France   An envelope of aluminum scales with patterns inspired in Escherian motifs protects a large balconied concert hall designed in the manner of Scharoun¹s Berliner Philaharmonie. 

Jean Nouvel   India   With views of the city and the sea, the 57-story apartment block symbolizes the spirit of Indian cities and their striking colors through the repetition of lacquered glass elements on the facade, configuring a large mashrabiya... [+]

Jean Nouvel   Netherlands   As if it were a large boat docked at the port, the building emerges over a layer of water that reflects its glass facade, the stainless steel structure that adds rhythm to it, and the 45 flags of European countries located at the entrance to the inst

Jean Nouvel   China   South of the island of Hainan, the hotel emerges over an artificial topography that connects it with the beach and with a public park; a glass facade of 150 x 400 meters is wrapped up with a platform of pools and restaurants with views of the bay.  A

Jean Nouvel   France   The only visible portion of the building in the landscape is a narrow band of 200 meters and amber tones; there, a clay ramp enclosed in polished concrete walls leads to the recreation of the Paleolithic cave and its paintings... [+]

Jean Nouvel   Brazil   A 93-meter high residential tower, with a hotel and apartments, becomes a vertical extension of the adjoining Matarazzo park; a series of terraces form luxuriant green surfaces, planted with the same species that grow in the park.  Designed as a tree

Jean Nouvel   Belgium   The project to renovate the railway station includes, in its 250,000 square meters of offices, retail spaces and conference center, a V-shaped building over the train tracks and several structures stretching along Fonsny Avenue.  The V-shaped office

Jean Nouvel   United Arab Emirates   As a result of an agreement between the United Arab Emirates and France in 2007, the Louvre Abu Dhabi seeks to embody a spirit of openness and dialogue between cultures; thus, in its 8,600 square meters of galleries it will display artworks with a hi

Jean Nouvel BIAD   China   In 2013, the jury of the NAMOC competition gave the first prize to the team of Jean Nouvel with BIAD (Beijing Institute of Architectural Design), choosing their proposal over those of Zaha Hadid and of Frank Gehry, who were shortlisted. Located in Ol

Jean Nouvel Ribas & Ribas   Spain   Part of the complex of new facilities of the Fira de Barcelona, this 110-meter tower accommodates a hotel program, distributing its 26,000 square meters of floor space in two volumes – separated by an open atrium partly colonized by plants – reached

Jean Nouvel   France   The proposal tries to reduce the presence of the building to a single artistic gesture. It conceals all the spaces under the forest except for a narrow band of 200 meters that at night lights up, taking on amber hues that herald its presence from the

Jean Nouvel   United Kingdom   Una cubierta topográfica y dos calles interiores inspiradas en los antiguos pasajes londinenses definen la volumetría de un centro comercial situado en el corazón de la ciudad.

Jean Nouvel MDW Architecture   Belgium   The proposal includes the extension of the current gendarmerie, located in two 19th- century stables, and the refurbishment of the small villa of the Belgian dance company Charleroi. The scheme proposes demolishing some of the current buildings to ge

A Jean Nouvel work which opened in 1996 on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin, what was the first branch abroad of the iconic Galeries Lafayette of Paris could now become a large library. In spite of huge investments, Friedrichstrasse has not managed to cons

Pablo Canga   Four decades, 784 pages, 600 photos, 85 projects, a coffee-table format measuring 41.2x29.8 cm and weighing 5.75 kg. Such is the monumental scale and ambition of a monograph that expounds on the trajectory of an icon of contemporary architecture. Big

As if to mark the absolute center that Cerdá had in mind for his Eixample, the tower built by Jean Nouvel on the Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes has become one of the icons of Barcelona. An observation deck at the top has now opened to the public in w

The New York Times   Shivani Vora   Whether designing a condominium in Miami Beach or a museum in Abu Dhabi, Mr. Nouvel draws inspiration from what flows in and around the landscape. The Pritzker Prize-winning French architect Jean Nouvel says all his fondest childhood memories revolve

It is difficult to name a country where the modern program of social reform and hygienization through housing has been as strong as in France. In the 1920s, Le Corbusier declared architecture to be a crucial instrument in addressing societal ills Arc

The Guardian   Angelique Chrisafis   Jean Nouvel’s lawyers say sums demanded from him are ‘totally disproportionate’. The architect behind the Philharmonie de Paris, one of the world’s most expensive concert halls, is suing the body that manages it over fines issued against him when the

Prodigal son of architecture during the 1980s, Jean Nouvel (Fumel, 1945) knew to make the leap to international fame to join the list of star architects. It was a leap linked to the creation of Ateliers Jean Nouvel, a firm of 150 employees working f

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   It took 18 years to build, has nearly a mile of galleries and is inspired by a desert rose. Hundreds of huge white plates lie scattered along the roadside in the centre of Doha, Qatar, as if someone has had a spectacular accident with a gigantic

Luis Fernández-Galiano   We say Gulf to avoid calling it Persian or Arabian. When that placid world of pearl hunters, camel breeders and date growers became an oil lake, the old enmity between Arabs and Persians was expressed through the geopolitical conflict between Saudi A

Jean Nouvel’s most awaited building of the last years, the Louvre Abu Dhabi, finally opens this coming 12 November through what promises to be a ceremony of great political substance. Originally programmed for the year 2012, the project has been swam

The prefab shelter has been one of the obsessions of modern architecture, but the fruits of this obsession have been meager in terms of social and economic impact. As a matter of fact, prefabricated dwellings – except in their most profitable and ban

Después de siete años de obras y retrasos, y de que el Estado francés se gastase 386 millones de euros en lugar de los 200 presupuestados, la Philharmonie de París era una obra tan esperada como mirada con lupa. Por eso no extraña que su inauguración

Peter Buchanan   Desde su primera edición en 2000, la convocatoria de los pabellones de la Galería Serpentine constituye un singular escaparate mediático donde se funden el arte y la arquitectura.

Jean Nouvel ha recibido recientemente la aprobación para la construcción del que será su primer proyecto en Australia. Incluido dentro del plan One Central Park, que se extiende sobre una superficie de 25 hectáreas en el centro de Sidney, el estudio

Situada entre la nueva ciudad y el norte de la bahía de la capital de Qatar, la torre de oficinas Doha destaca por el remate en antena de inspiración árabe y la estructura de tipo diagrid que permite transmitir mejor las cargas y liberar el espacio i

Jean Nouvel ha presentado en el MoMA de Nueva York su proyecto para el Museo Nacional de Qatar, un edificio que pretende convertirse en un nuevo hito cultural dentro de la región del Golfo Pérsico. El museo toma como referencia formal la geometría de

Jean Nouvel The Hyatt Foundation presents yearly, since 1979, the Pritkzer Prize, one of the most important international architectural awards. After the British Richard Rogers, 2007 laureate, the French Jean Nouvel has been the new recipient. A jury

A las afueras de la capital danesa, en un entorno sin referentes salpicado por anónimos edificios de viviendas y oficinas, se eleva el nuevo Auditorio de Copenhague, un misterioso cubo de 43 metros de lado, envuelto en una llamativa piel translúcida

François Chaslin   Tras una carrera de cerca de treinta años, Jean Nouvel acaba de obtener el Pritzker. Es el segundo arquitecto francés que recibe esta distinción, después de Christian de Portzamparc en 1994. Ambos son encarnaciones perfectas de un cierto espíritu fra

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In an agnostic world, art is the ultimate religion. Beyond the fractures between confessions, art presents itself as a universal creed. Its priests are heard with reverence, its liturgies are followed with devotion, and its temples colonize the plane

François Chaslin   La tradición que dicta que los presidentes de la República Francesa intenten adornar su mandato erigiendo monumentos culturales en París se ha cumplido de nuevo en el verano de 2006 con la apertura, a cargo de Jacques Chirac, de un museo dedicado a l

François Chaslin   «¡La verdad, de este lado de los Pirineos; más allá, ¡el error!». De este modo se enseñaba antaño a los niños de las escuelas francesas, antes de que Europa alisara los contrastes. Así, esta frontera que separaba su país de España los iniciaba en la

El País   Luis Fernández-Galiano   The new Reina Sofía is a grand building, but not a great work. A B-product of Nouvel’s factory, its lightweight aesthetic combines all the futuristic features that have made the French architect so popular: the industrial atmosphere of steel-and-glas

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