Archinect (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Jean Nouvel's baths building opened last July 17th on Le Havre. A revitalisation project lead by the city in order to create together with the mandatory shopping centre a unique destination in the long term. Flickr photos - Press (in french)
Life Without Buildings (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
“…People choose one building by me, one by Norman Foster, one by Zaha, one by Jean Nouvel, one by Daniel Libeskind. It becomes a cabinet of horrors.” So sayeth global architecture overlord and Simpsons character, Frank Gehry, describing the architectural orgy that is Abu Dhabi in a conversation with Hugh Pearman. If that statement sounds [...]
Curbed (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. The shell for Jean Nouvel's new Vision Machine continues to rise on Eleventh Avenue, and it has now reached the top of its neighbor to the north. That one is an...
Gotham Gal (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Josh, Jessica and I made a day of seeing things that were a bit off the beaten track. We began at the Cartier Foundation. The building is glass and steel with trees growing inside. Jean Nouvel was the architect. 2...
PARIS /moleskinecity.com (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
On the tenth anniversary of his death, the Fondation Cartier presents an exhibition of the work of the French sculptor César, from July 8th, through August 30th. Jean Nouvel, a close friend of the artist and the architect of the Fondation, has been asked to select the works and designs of the French Artist who [...]
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
PARIS - The Fondation Cartier presents a major exhibition of the work of French sculptor César on the tenth anniversary of his death. Jean Nouvel —the Fondation Cartier’s architect and a close friend of the artist—has been invited to select the works as well as design their presentation, thus offering a fresh perspective on the work of an artist who passionately explored the formal and expressive...
Curbed (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The city's 59 community boards, fighting Jean Nouvel skyscrapers and new restaurants in your neighborhood since the beginning of time, have been spared from Mayor Bloomberg's proposed 5% budget cut. All but one Manhattan community board have new budgets topping...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
'Architects take emotions from the streets, the art galleries; they steal,' says the controversial Frenchman. TimesOnline
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
"Artists are always the laboratory for the first ideas, the first emotions. Architects take emotions from the streets, the art galleries, the museums; they steal. Architects often wish they were artists, and Jean Nouvel is of the artier kind."...
Curbed (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
MoMA's prefab housing exhibit, which will display structures from five architects on the empty lot that may or may not house Jean Nouvel's Tower Verre some day, is starting to come together in advance of the July 20th opening. Last night a tipster wrote: "There was a crane there today, will be again tomorrow through Wednesday lifting the prefab pieces together. Cool stuff." MoMA constructoporn! We're...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
The secrets of plants that cling, grip, and climb, from the inventor of the vertical garden. Patrick Blanc, an artist with a green thumb, has created dozens of his admired botanical tapestries in public and private spaces around the world, including the Jean Nouveldesigned Quai Branly Museum in Paris, the Marithé & François Girbaud boutique in Manhattan, Herzog & De Meuron's Caixa Forum in Madrid,...
architecture.mnp (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
http://video.google.com/videoplay'docid=1844176650002432714 Charlie Rose sits down with 2008 Pritzker Prize winner Jean Nouvel - and past winners Frank Gehry , Zaha Hadid and Renzo Piano . Original air date: June 5th, 2008. :: Video Sundays, or VS, is a weekly feature here on AMNP. For more architecture-related videos, click on any Sunday in the sidebar calendar - or on the ‘videos’ category in the...
core77.com (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
That's a shot of the winning design of the Tour Signal , by Ateliers Jean Nouvel. A competition was held to reinvigorate Paris' La Defense neighborhood: This project’s ambition is to create a strong hub at the heart of the Greater Paris region, creating a significant draw at the same time as establishing a relationship between the project and its natural and built-up environment, embodying the various...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
"Ben van Berkel's Five Franklin Place takes the glass-box condo and ties it up in sinuous ribbons of black metal. Frank Gehry drapes the Beekman Tower's 76 stories in voluptuous folds of stainless steel. More is to come from Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind and Jean Nouvel. These are not just emblems of confidence in the New York market. They also express faith in architecture that strives for significance."...
Curbed (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
&set=72157605525608585"> ?o=0'> ?o=0' style='font-size: 9px; text-align: center;'> Click the image above to view the full photogallery. The hottest starchitect in the universe, this year's Pritzker Prize winner Jean Nouvel and creator of the jaw droppingly awesome Tower Verre on West 53rd, has another killer project on the rise at 100 Eleventh Avenue in West Chelsea. The first couple of floors of the...
