Description
This issue’s main feature are three commissions that Ateliers Jean Nouvel has completed over the past three decades for Arab clients in Paris and the Gulf States: National Museum of Qatar, Louvre Abu Dhabi, and Institut du Monde Arabe. The projects embody the skill with which the office gives a fresh spin on traditional themes while creating a sense of place that enhances the site, and are notable for their abstraction of themes in Islamic architecture in creating a fusion of new and old, indigenous and Western. The issue also profiles several recent buildings by Valerio Olgiati, Frank Gehry, Smiljan Radić, BIG, Peter Märkli, Peter Zumthor, and Eduardo Souto de Moura.
CONTENTS
a+u Arabic Context and Culture—3 Projects by Jean Nouvel includes:
1. Jean Nouvel
- National Museum of Qatar
- Louvre Abu Dhabi
- Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA)
- Essay: Abstracting Islamic Architecture, Micheal Webb
2. Recent Projects
- Pearling Path Visitors Center, Valerio Olgiati
- Céline Flagship Store, Valerio Olgiati
- Luma Arles Arts Resource Centre, Frank O. Gehry
- Teatro Regional del Bíobío, Smiljan Radić
- Maison de l’Économie Créative et de la Culture en, Nouvelle-Aquitaine (MÉCA) / Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
- Apartment Building Güetliweg, Peter Märkli
- Secular Retreat, Peter Zumthor
- Vatican Chapel for La Biennale di Venezia, Eduardo Souto de Moura
- Hong Kong West Kowloon Station, Andrew Bromberg at Aedas
Essay: The Masterplan for the West Kowloon Cultural District, Angela Pang
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