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Cartier Foundation Paris, Building, Architect, Address, Design, Date
Cartier Foundation Paris : Architecture Information
Jean Nouvel Building Paris, FranceFondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain / Cartier Foundation Paris 261 boulevard Raspail, Paris 1991-95 Jean Nouvel, Architect with Emanuel Cattani et Associés Intriguing building that plays games with layers of translucent screens to ask what is building and what is not? Existing mature trees on the site, south of the centre of Paris, are imaginatively integrated. Contact: +33 1 4218 5651 Cartier Foundation architects : Jean Nouvel Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris - Building Description This building is a joy to behold. It challenges our ideas of what a building is and what it can be. Transparent and translucent layers of glass and steel contain mature trees and gallery spaces. Nouvel's light touch in this building is a world away from say the Theatre Granit. Many of his other buildings use a much darker and richer palette, eg the Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre and more recently Nouvel's extension to the Reina Sofía in Madrid. He tends to use the same massive cantilever form with a beautifully fine edge profile (ie the roof is trussed to show a fine edge from angles below), again as per the two buildings cited above. |
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