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Cartier Foundation Paris, Building, Architect, Address, Design, Date
Cartier Foundation Paris : Architecture Information
Jean Nouvel Building Paris, France
Fondation 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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