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Featured Buildings, alphabetical:
Agbar Tower, Barcelona, Spain
2004
photo © adrian welch
Spanish tower : 142m high skyscraper, third highest in Barcelona in 2005.
Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
1994
Jean Nouvel with Emanuel Cattani et Associés
Cartier Foundation Paris
Galeries Lafayette, Berlin, Germany
1996
photo © Adrian Welch
Galeries Lafayette
Hotel Puerta America, Madrid, Spain
various interiors, various designers
image from Hotel Puerta America website
Spanish hotel
lnstitut du Monde Arabe / Arab du Monde lnstitute, Paris, France
1988
photograph © adrian welch
One of the strongest buildings of President Mitterrand´s “Les Grands Projects”
Famous for its arabic-inspired fenestration where small occuli open & contract to allow varying levels of light in. The Institute du Monde Arabe was a result of one of the first Grands Projet architecture competitions.
Arab du Monde lnstitute
KölnTurm, Cologne, Germany
2001
Jean Nouvel with Kohl & Kohl Architekten
photo © webbaviation
165m high (543 ft) : Cologne's second tallest building after the Colonius
MoMA Extension + Hotel + Apartments - Tower, Manhattan, USA
2007-
image from Jean Nouvel Architects
MoMA New York tower : 75 storeys
National Music Centre - Shortlist, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2009-
Canadian National Music Centre : Open Piano Tower - Atelier Jean Nouvel
One New Change, London, England
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photo © Nick Weall
One New Change : Prince Charles Letter
Walbrook Square - ’The Cloud’, City of London, UK
2006-
Foster & Partners / Jean Nouvel Architects
image from Stanhope
Walbrook Square London : abandoned Aug 2009
Jean Nouvel Architects - All Buildings, chronological:
BBDO office, I’lle Saint Germain, Paris, France
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Némausus Public Housing, Nimes, France
1981-87
L'Institut du Monde Arabe, 11 quai Saint-Bernard, Paris 5e, France
1988
Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, 261 boulevard Raspail, Paris, France
1994
Galeries Lafayette, Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, Germany
1996
Luzern Culture and Congress Center - KKL, Rob. Zündstrasse, Luzern, Switzerland
1999
Interunfall - offices / housing, Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria
1999
Torre Agbar, Avinguda Diagonal, Barcelona, Spain
2004
Extension to the Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
2006
Alcântara-Marx redevelopment, Lisbon, Portugal
2006
Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, USA
2006
Ateliers Jean Nouvel with Architectural Alliance
£68m
DR Byen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007
Danish project
40 Mercer, Soho apartment building, New York, USA
2007
15 storeys: for Andres Balazs
Walbrook Square, City of London, UK
2006-
Foster & Partners / Jean Nouvel Architects
Classical Art Museum – proposal, Dubai
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MoMA Tower, New York, USA
2007-
Red October – chocolate factory site redevelopment, Moscow, Russia
2007-
Foster & Partners; Jean Nouvel; Project Meganom; Jean Michel Wilmotte; Willen & Associates; McAdam Architects
Moscow Building
Guggenheim Museum proposal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Paris Orchestra Concert Hall, France
2007-
One New Change, City of London, UK
2006-
Il Kilometro Rosso-Brembo Headquarters, Bergamo, Italy
2008
Mies van der Rohe Awards 2009 Nominee
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Practice Information
Jean Nouvel (1945-) was born in Fumel, France
Winner of RIBA Gold Medal 2001
Background
The architect opened his own office in 1975. His break came in 1981 when President Mitterand commenced his Grand Projets and by 1988 his lnstitut du Monde Arabe was complete. Its facade was unlike anything seen before and catapluted Nouvel into international architect stardom.
The Agbar Tower project in Barcelona reaffirms his celebrity status once again. It has been compared to Foster & Partners' Swiss Re building of course, but in various articles it has been stated by Nouvel's office that this is incidental.
Awards
Grand Prix d'Architecture - 1987
Aga Khan Award for Architecture - 1989
Royal Institute of British Architects: Royal Gold Medal for Architecture - 2001
Paris Architects
Jean Nouvel Books
French Architecture
Zlaty Andel building aka The Golden Angel, Prague, Czech Republic
Jean Nouvel Architects - Other Buildings, chronological:
Belfort Municipal Theater - Theatre Granit, 1 faubourg de Montbéliard, Belfort,
France, 1983
Musée du quai Branly / Quai Branly Museum
15, rue Jean-Baptiste Berlier, Paris
opened jun 2006, near the Eiffel Tower
Jean Nouvel, Architect
Swiss Expo 02 – ‘Cube’, Morat, Switzerland
2002
Jean Nouvel : French Architect
Architecture Competition
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