Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel completes red and blue La Marseillaise skyscraper

October 31, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

French architect Jean Nouvel has completed an office skyscraper in Marseille, with a concrete facade painted in 27 shades of red, white and blue in celebration of the port city’s landscape. The 135 metre-high tower, which is named La Marseillaise, is situated in Euroméditerranée, an emerging business district on Marseille’s waterfront. It stands close to

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Jean Nouvel’s 53W53 tower tops out over New York’s MoMA

June 19, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Newly released construction photographs show the progress of French architect Jean Nouvel’s first New York skyscraper: a supertall tower rising above the city’s Museum of Modern Art. The images by photographer Giles Ashford capture the 53W53 tower as construction reaches the final 82nd floor and the building’s curtain wall takes shape – significant progress since

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Facebook to move into Jean Nouvel’s Barcelona skyscraper

May 8, 2018 India Block 0

Facebook has reportedly rented eight floors of office space inside the Jean Nouvel-designed Torre Glòries skyscraper in Barcelona, Spain. Competence Call Centre (CCC), a company hired by Facebook to combat the spread of fake news, hate speech and violent content on the social media platform, has acquired 9,000 square metres of office space in the building, according

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Jean Nouvel’s National Museum of Qatar nears completion

May 2, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

These new images by Dutch photographer Iwan Baan show the almost-complete National Museum of Qatar, designed by architect Jean Nouvel. The new national museum is currently being built in the country’s capital Doha, and is expected to open in December 2018. It will be formed from a pile of interlocking disks of various dimensions made from steel clad in glass-reinforced

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New photographs reveal the feat of engineering behind the Louvre Abu Dhabi’s dome

December 11, 2017 India Block 0

These photographs by Luc Boegly and Sergio Grazia show the complex engineering of the vast dome that is suspended over the galleries of Jean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Meetings between the the French architect and engineers Buro Happold began in 2007, with the architect laying out his vision for an art gallery like

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Timelapse reveals eight-year construction of Louvre Abu Dubai in just three minutes

November 22, 2017 India Block 0

A timelapse video from the webcam provider EarthCam reveals the intricate process of constructing the geometric dome of the new Jean Nouvel-designed Louvre Abu Dhabi. The eight-year construction process is condensed down into just three minutes of video, showing the site going from an empty stretch of island to a 23-gallery museum covered by a 180-metre wide

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