ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- A long-delayed project to build three colossal museums on an arid Persian Gulf island will be finished by 2017, officials say, realizing the designs of some of the world's leading architects while underlining the ambitions of this city to emerge as a global capital. The new date, which will be announced Wednesday,...
THE journey from an Ohio theme park to Brooklyn has been long and difficult for 48 wooden horses, who today are scheduled to trot, canter, leap -- O.K., be wheeled -- from the Dumbo studio of Jane Walentas, the artist who spent over 20 years overseeing their restoration, to their permanent home, a carousel in Brooklyn Bridge Park. It opens on Sept....
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- It is an audacious experiment: two small, oil-rich countries in the Middle East are using architecture and art to reshape their national identities virtually overnight, and in the process to redeem the tarnished image of Arabs abroad while showing the way toward a modern society within the boundaries of Islam....
Jean Nouvel (født 12. august 1945) er en fransk arkitekt, der arbejder med et udtryk, der på en gang er enkelt, men samtidig har en flot fornemmelse for detaljen.
Jean Nouvel har arbejdet meget med transparente materialer, som lyset trænger igennem. Det ses ikke mindst i et af hans hovedværker, det arabiske institut i Paris, hvor en lang række mekaniske blænder justerer lyset inde i bygningen, samtidig med at det skaber et arabisk inspireret mønster i glas- og stålfacaden.
Nouvels tegnestue vandt konkurrencen om DRs Koncerthuset, som efter voldsomme overskridelser af budgettet blev indviet i 2009.
Nouvel modtog i 2008 Pritzker-prisen.