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Contemporary French Architecture Practice - architect studio based in Paris
18 May 2012 Ateliers Jean Nouvel - Latest NewsJean Nouvel will build the 'Duo' project on the Rive Gauche in Paris. The DUO project ('B3A') is located in Paris XIII (Masséna Bruneseau) for investor Ivanhoé Cambridge Hines the total cost is projected to be 500/600M€. These Leaning Paris skyscrapers - 175m & 115m high - will be the first in the new high-rise quartier Bruneseau at the border of the city and Ivry-sur-Seine in the 13th arrondissement. They will have a common base which opens out into the form of a V.    images © Ateliers Jean Nouvel Formally titled BS3, the new buildings beside the Seine at Quai d'Ivray and the Périphérique will offer more than 90,000 sqm of office space, a 237-room four-star hotel, and 1,800 sqm of commercial space, including a revolving restaurant. The leaning skyscrapers will be built on Rue Bruneseau and Boulevard du Général Jean Simon. Work on the new site is due to start in summer 2014 with opening projectd for spring 2018. Ateliers Jean Nouvel - Recent DesignTour Horizons, Paris, France image © Ateliers Jean Nouvel Tour Horizons - 26 Jan 2012 Tower building located in ZAC Seguin rive de Seine, Boulogne-Billancourt. Ateliers Jean Nouvel - Recent NewsFondation Imagine, Paris, FranceAteliers Jean Nouvel / Valero Gadan  image © Ateliers Jean Nouvel / Valero Gadan Fondation Imagine Paris - 20 Jul 2011 RBC Design Center, Montpellier, France  image © Ateliers Jean Nouvel RBC Design Center - 20 Jul 2011 Bruxelles Gare du Midi, Belgium  image from Ateliers Jean Nouvel Bruxelles Gare du Midi - 19 Jul 2011 Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France - photos added  image © Rebecca Breun Musée du quai Branly - 13 Jun 2011 Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom, Austria - added  image : Philippe Ruault Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom - 30 Mar 2011 Architecture is the art of taming constraints ; of poetizing contradictions ; of looking differently at common and trivial things in order to reveal their singularity. Architecture is an opportunity, in a city marked by history, to continue games begun by others years or centuries ago. It is a clever game of chance and intention ; an occasion to modify, to deepen, or to change the meaning of a context. Architecture is about making apparitions. 28 Mar 2011 The Philharmonie de Paris, Paris, France - start on site news  picture © Jean Nouvel Philharmonie de Paris 22 Mar 2011 Concert House Danish Radio Copenhagen Jean Nouvel : Mies van der Rohe Awards 2011 Finalist One New Change, London, England  image © Miller Hare Ltd One New Change Building 15 Oct 2010 Manhattan residential tower The award-winning French architect is about to leave his mark on the New York City skyline reports CBS. The first is a residential tower on Manhattan's West Side, with hundreds of irregularly-placed windows tilted at odd angles. Jean Nouvel personally placed each window in the building. From the outside they're designed to reflect the sun and the sky...from the inside, to frame the landscape. "Here, of course, I wanted to catch all the panorama," Jean said. In one bedroom he positioned a window so it could perfectly frame the Empire State Building: "It's like a guardian during the night," he said while reclining on a bed. MoMA Tower:  image from Jean Nouvel Architects The other New York project by Jean Nouvel is a building that could rival the Empire State Building, a soaring skyscraper that one critic said "promised to be the most exhilarating addition to the skyline in a generation." "I try to play with the idea of a needle," Jean Nouvel said. The tower would be built on a tiny lot next to the Museum of Modern Art. In the original design by Jean Nouvel, the slender spire would have risen 75 stories, higher than the Chrysler Building and almost tall as the Empire State: "Which is precisely what bothers some people," said Davidson. "For people who reacted negatively to the tower, it seemed arrogant." Community groups fought the project. New York, a city of skyscrapers, seemed to be afraid of heights: "Is Jean Nouvel's building worthy of standing alongside the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building?" Anthony Mason asked. "I think so," said Davidson. "It marks the period in which it's being designed so dramatically." The architect has faced resistance before. There were questions about his striking Barcelona tower: "Maybe people think I am sexual obsessed with this building!" he laughed. "It's not the case." In fact, it was meant to echo the unusual rock pinnacles of nearby Montserrat. And another Jean Nouvel skyscraper, the so-called "Tower Without End," was never built, because of a housing slump in the nineties which left his Paris-based studio in bankruptcy. He says it wasn't discouraging: "No, it's not in my character." The City Council finally gave the go-ahead to build - but only if Jean Nouvel chops 200 feet off the top. "It's very French to cut the head, eh?" Nouvel laughed. "A guillotine!" So at his Paris studio, Jean Nouvel has gone back to the drawing board, working on a redesign, while his residential tower opened this summer. "Do you like how it looks now?" he's asked. "Yeah, I like that. Yes, it's exactly what we wanted." His aim as an architect, Jean Nouvel says, is to give pleasure to people: "I think architecture has to be a gift." Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London, UK  images © Ateliers Jean Nouvel Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 Tour Signal, Paris, France  image from the architect Tour Signal building : Temporary suspension of skyscraper design by Jean Nouvel National Museum of Qatar Building, Qatar  image by Artefactory, © Ateliers Jean Nouvel National Museum of Qatar Design Jean Nouvel award : 2008 Pritzker Prize winner Jean Nouvel BuildingsFeatured Buildings, alphabetical:
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Practice Information
Jean Nouvel (1945-) was born in Fumel, France
Jean Nouvel : RIBA Gold Medal Winner 2001
Background
Architect Jean Nouvel opened his own architecture office in 1975. His architectural break came in 1981 when President Mitterand commenced his Grand Projets - major Parisian buildings - 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 architect:
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Jean Nouvel architect : Paris Design Studio
The Agbar Tower project in Barcelona reaffirmed his celebrity status once again. The design was compared to Foster & Partners' Swiss Re building of course, but in various articles it has been stated by the office of Jean Nouvel that this is incidental.
Architecture Awards
Grand Prix d'Architecture - 1987
Aga Khan Award for Architecture - 1989
Royal Institute of British Architects: Royal Gold Medal for Architecture - 2001
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French Architecture
Zlaty Andel building aka The Golden Angel, Prague, Czech Republic
Jean Nouvel : French Architect
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