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Paris Fondation Cartier for Contemporary Art / Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000

To mark the launch of its new site in the heart of Paris, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain invites the public to discover its exhibition spaces free of charge, as well as the inaugural exhibition Exposition Générale, showcasing major works from its collection, during the first two days of opening.

Henderson Cifi Tiandi / Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Paula Pintos — Thu, 13 May 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Text by Jean Nouvel.

Dolce & Gabbana Store Seoul / Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Paula Pintos — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

In Seoul, an imposing and precious glass encasing preserves and yet reveals extraordinary treasures of fine craftsmanship: the new Dolce&Gabbana boutique at Cheongdam-dong, in the Gangnam District, is an architectural ode to the encounter between love for tradition and ceaseless innovation.

RBC Design Center / Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 19:00:00 +0000

A design life style. This is the theme of the RBC Design Center, distributor of contemporary furniture whose headquarters are based in Gallargues-le-Montueux (Gard).

Ycone La Confluence Residential Tower / Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Paula Pintos — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 18:00:00 +0000

The Confluence is an emblematic urban hub that will become historic, representative as it is of the 2000s and 2010s. The word ‘confluence’ suggests meeting, convergence. In this part of Lyon, there’s the meeting of many different individuals and social actors and the convergence of a great number of styles. It’s been a pleasure to be involved in such a cultural hotbed and the whole process of liberating renewal, where every project needs to find its place. Ycone will be bordered by pre-existing buildings in an urban development that will be part of a world to come. So it was important to see what could happen: we’re not making sense for today, but for a programmed future – with all the risks that that implies: in urbanism, things that are programmed can vanish without a trace from one day to the next.

Musee du Quai Branly / Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Martita Vial della Maggiora — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 10:00:00 +0000

This is a museum built around a specific collection, where everything is designed to evoke an emotional response to the primary object, to protect it from light, but also to capture that rare ray of light indispensable to make it vibrate and awaken its spirituality. In a place inhabited by symbols of forests and rivers, by obsessions of death and oblivion, it is an asylum for censored and cast off works from Australia and the Americas. It is a loaded place haunted with dialogues between the ancestral spirits of men, who, in discovering their human condition, invented gods and beliefs. It is a place that is unique and strange, poetic and unsettling.

National Museum of Qatar / Ateliers Jean Nouvel

María Francisca González — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 07:00:00 +0000

The building design is inspired by a mineral formation commonly found in the deserts of the Gulf region. The ‘desert rose’ is a rock formed when minerals crystallize in the crumbly soil just below the surface of a shallow salt basin. The system of interlocking disks surrounding the historic palace like necklace looks as if it’s been propagated organically. It incorporates exhibition spaces that fan out in an elliptical circuit around a central court, the Howsh, where outdoor cultural events will be staged. The desert-rose form evokes the culture and climate of Qatar. It emerges from the ground and merges with it. The shadows created by overhanging elements allow visitors to stroll around outside at the same time as protecting the interior from light and heat. The sand-colored concrete cladding is in harmony with the local environment.

Gallo-roman Museum Vesuna / Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Martita Vial della Maggiora — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 06:00:00 +0000

To Protect and to Reveal

La Marseillaise / Ateliers Jean Nouvel

María Francisca González — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Large cities have towers close to their center in order to avoid expanding too far, and to limit daily commutes. They use existing service infrastructure and transportation systems, naturally making them sustainable and urban in all the senses of these two terms. This observation explains the growth, by the sea and in the heart of the Euroméditerranée development, of the family of tall silhouettes created by these various towers.

Louvre Abu Dhabi / Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Diego Hernández — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 06:00:00 +0000

“All climates like exceptions. Warmer when it is cold. Cooler in the tropics. People do not resist thermal shock well. Nor do works of art. Such elementary observations have influenced Louvre Abu Dhabi. It wishes to create a welcoming world serenely combining light and shadow, reflection and calm. It wishes to belong to a country, to its history, to its geography without becoming a flat translation, the pleonasm that results in boredom and convention. It also aims at emphasising the fascination generated by rare encounters.

In Progress: Louvre Abu Dhabi / Jean Nouvel

Fernanda Castro — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 02:00:00 +0000

All climates like exceptions. Warmer when it is cold. Cooler in the tropics. People do not resist thermal shock well. Nor do works of art. Such elementary observations have influenced the Louvre Abu Dhabi. It wishes to create a welcoming world serenely combining light and shadow, reflection and calm. It wishes to belong to a country, to its history, to its geography without becoming a flat translation, the pleonasm that results in boredom and convention. It also aims at emphasizing the fascination generated by rare encounters.

Police Headquearters & Charleroi Danses / Ateliers Jean Nouvel + MDW Architecture

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Police and Dance, a pas de deux.

One Central Park / Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Nico Saieh — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 01:00:00 +0000

One Central Park offered Nouvel and Blanc a canvas of an entirely new scale. Here they built an integrated experience for living in harmony with the natural world.

Jean Nouvel Releases Official Design for National Art Museum of China

Karissa Rosenfield — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Jean Nouvel has unveiled the official design for the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC). Originally inspired by the simplicity of “a single brush stroke,” the 21st century art and calligraphy museum will become the centerpiece of a new cultural district at Olympic Park, rising next to the historic axis of Beijing and symbolically connecting to the Forbidden City.

Imagine Institute / Ateliers Jean Nouvel + Valero Gadan Architectes

Cristian Aguilar — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The corner of the Boulevard du Montparnasse and the Rue du Cherche-Midi could not be more Parisian. We would like to make it more “hospitable” in both senses of the word.

Armagnac / Ateliers Jean Nouvel + Habiter Autrement

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This former industrial site is just two minutes from the central railway station. In the urban zoning plan, the building was situated in the centre of the plot, so the first important move was to shift the building to the west side of the site. The resulting large clearing to the east will have seasonal plants and flowers; vertical vegetation will create a visual filter between the west facade and the neighbouring housing. The spacious apartments consist of double-oriented lofts situated between these two landscapes.

Cenon / Habiter Autrement + Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Nico Saieh — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Cenon has a typical suburban form of disparate housing blocks spread out over a flat territory, but on an early visit to the site, Habiter Autrement found a beautiful umbrella pine tree growing there, and the idea of making a pine wood became the starting point of the project. The wood creates a specific environment to which the building form can relate and, when full-grown, the trees will help to create a pleasant distance between apartments, giving their inhabitants the feeling of being in their own park without abandoning a vital density.

Lormont Housing / Habiter Autrement + Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Nico Saieh — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

In the Lormont housing project, extraordinary views of the Gironde river and the Aquitaine bridge are the key features of the site. In order to optimize these views, while minimizing visibility between neighbours, each of the 26 apartments was given a unique shape; the result of this arrangement is the building’s overall saw-shaped figure.