Jean Nouvel is a French architect. He was awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour, in 2008, for his work on more than 200 projects.
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- Afiliación:
- Architecture
- Lugar:
- Paris, France
- Fecha de nacimiento:
- 12 de agosto de 1945
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The Associated Press reported that Jean Nouvel's proposed 82-story tower next to the Museum of Modern Art has cleared its final hurdle.
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TOWER VERRE
With his design for the Tower Verre, Jean Nouvel proposes to take the strict respect of the zoning envelope to the point where its shape becomes the tower itself. Governed by its legal envelope and the steel framing needed to withstand the wind loads, this structure is as unique and singular as the parcel it ... stands on. From close up, its receding stealth geometry makes it surprisingly discrete and unobtrusive for its height. Seen from Central Park, the bridges and most locations on the river banks, its triangular silhouette stands out and is very recognizable in the Manhattan skyline, inscribing the MoMA unmistakably as one of New York’s most famous and successful cultural institutions. The façades of the tower are a structural glazing in standard glass dimensions and the bracing structure follows the simplest and most economical geometry. Living inside this building feels like inhabiting a power fully present and reassuring structure, similar to that of a large tree. The tower draws its shape from the desire for more daylight in the streets and the same daylight feeds its solar panels with energy. Its character is the structural expression of the wind bracing and the same wind moves its Aeolian turbines. The solar panels and wind turbines fill the narrow triangular top section, putting its unusually thin silhouette to a reasonable use. This tower is a monument to the rules of shadow and light, and to the forces of the wind.
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LOUVRE ABU DHABI
Key Data
Start Year ------------------ 2007
Project Type --------------- Art gallery and museum
Location -------------------- Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Island
Estimated Investment ---- €83m plus €1.3bn deal with the Louvre Paris
Completion ----------------- 2010–2012
Sponsor -------------------- Government of Abu D ...habi, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
The Abu Dhabi Louvre museum will open in 2012. The deal has been steeped in controversy as France has been accused of selling its museums. But for Abu Dhabi this project is just a small part of a cultural and tourist development project for Saadiyat Island (island of happiness) costing over €20.7bn.
The project's cultural components include a Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, a maritime museum and a performing arts centre as well as the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi's ruler, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has decided to make the island one of the world's top cultural destinations and a 'beacon for cultural experience and exchange'. There will also be an entertainment centre, and a Biennale Park with 19 pavilions as well as luxury hotels, golf courses and recreational ports.
The Louvre Abu Dhabi will be a 24,200m² (260,000ft²) complex covered by an umbrella-like roof. The building, which has been designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel, is planned as a universal museum, including art from all eras and regions, including Islamic art.
Designed as a seemingly floating dome structure, Nouvel's concept has been described as an engineering feat. Its web-patterned dome allows the sun to filter through, reminiscent of rays passing through date palm fronds in an oasis.
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Government of Abu Dhabi
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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) is the official name of Spain's national museum of 20th century art (informally shortened to the Museo Reina Sofía, Queen Sofia Museum, El Reina Sofia, or simply The Sofia). The museum was officially inaugurated on September ... 10, 1992 and is named for Queen Sofia of Spain. It is located in Madrid, near the Atocha train and metro stations, at the southern end of the so-called Golden Triangle of Art (located along the Paseo del Prado and also comprising the Museo del Prado and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza).
The museum is mainly dedicated to Spanish art. Highlights of the museum include excellent collections of Spain's two greatest 20th century masters, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. Certainly the most famous masterpiece in the museum is Picasso's great painting Guernica. The Reina Sofía also has fine collections of the works of Juan Gris, Joan Miró, Julio González, Eduardo Chillida, Antoni Tàpies, Pablo Gargallo, Lucio Muñoz, Luis Gordillo, Jorge Oteiza, José Gutiérrez Solana and many other significant artists.
Foreign artists are few, but there are works by Robert Delaunay, Yves Tanguy, Man Ray, Jacques Lipchitz, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, cubist still-lifes by Georges Braque and a large work by Francis Bacon.
It also hosts a free-access library specializing in art, with a collection of over 100,000 books, over 3,500 sound recordings and almost 1,000 videos.
The central building of the museum was an 18th century hospital. Extensive modern renovations and additions to the old building were made starting in 1980. In 1988 portions of the new museum were opened to the public, mostly in temporary configurations; that same year it was decreed a national museum. An 8000 m2 (86,000 ft2) expansion costing €92 million designed by French architect Jean Nouvel opened October 2005.
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Escape the everyday mundaneness of Itaewon by heading into the world of art. A few minutes walk from Itaewon Station you will find Leeum Samsung Museum of Art. The museum houses two major exhibitions: Museum 1 for traditional Korean art and Museum 2 for contemporary and modern art.
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Exhibit celebrates "Extreme Beauty" - International Herald Tribune
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The exhibit, whichopenedon March 6at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, sheds light on the applications of felt across the globe.
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Ten proposals for Nicolas Sarkozy's 'Grand Paris' include verdant parks, waterways ... and motorways that cut through the heart of the city. Agnès Poirier reports
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As work dries up, Foster, Hadid, Gehry and Nouvel are shortlisted for project in European...
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You couldn't hear a pin drop. In the world's newest concert hall, the faintest whir of air-conditioning intrudes. Here, where the quality of silence is as crucial as the reverberation times of sound waves, ...
Jean Nouvel
“This is not a tower. It is not a skyscraper in the American sense of the expression: it is a unique growth in the middle of this rather calm city. But it is not the slender, nervous verticality of the spires and bell towers that often punctuate horizontal cities. Instead, it is a fluid mass that has perforated the gro ...und – a geyser under a permanent calculated pressure.
The surface of this construction evokes the water: smooth and continuous, but also vibrating and transparent because it manifests itself in coloured depths - uncertain, luminous and nuanced. This architecture comes from the earth but does not have the weight of stone. It could even be the faraway echo of old formal Catalan obsessions, carried by a mysterious wind from the coast of Montserrat.
The uncertainties of matter and light make the campanile of Agbar vibrate in the skyline of Barcelona: a faraway mirage day and night; a precise marker to the entry of the new diagonale that starts at Plaça de las Glorias. This singular object becomes a new symbol for an international city.”
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Jean Nouvel Jean Nouvel, International competition for the educational, cultural and entertainment centre in Kuwait City. The main aim of this animation is to render, in just 3 minutes, the architectural complexity and atmosphere of some of the key places of this huge city centre project. The Ateliers Jean Nouvel won the competition.
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