No Image

Jean Nouvel reveals cave hotel in Saudi Arabia’s AlUla desert

October 27, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
The Sharaan by Jean Nouvel Resort in Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia

French architect Jean Nouvel has unveiled the design for a subterranean hotel that will be carved into a sandstone hill in the AlUla desert in Saudi Arabia. Named Sharaan by Jean Nouvel, the resort will be cut into the sandstone hills in the AlUla area of Saudi Arabia, which is around 220 miles north of

The post Jean Nouvel reveals cave hotel in Saudi Arabia’s AlUla desert appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

Jean Nouvel designs lush Acquarela community for Ecuador

November 12, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
Acquarela by Jean Nouvel

French architect Jean Nouvel has designed a sprawling, stone-clad residential development for the outskirts of Quito that echoes its mountainous surroundings. Ateliers Jean Nouvel has created Acquarela for Cumbayá, a rural area east of the Ecuadorian capital, in collaboration with local architectural developer Uribe & Schwarzkopf. The project will comprise nine residential blocks wrapped by

The post Jean Nouvel designs lush Acquarela community for Ecuador appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

Jean Nouvel sues over “totally disproportionate” Philharmonie de Paris late fee

October 25, 2019 India Block 0
Philharmonie de Paris by Jean Nouvel

Architect Jean Nouvel is counter-suing the Philharmonie de Paris over the €170.6 million fine he was slapped with for delivering the concert hall late and over budget. Nouvel’s lawyers William Bourdon and Vincent Brengarth said the fee was “totally disproportionate” and “unprecedented in the world of architecture”, reported the Guardian. They argued that the €170.6

The post Jean Nouvel sues over “totally disproportionate” Philharmonie de Paris late fee appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

André Fu outfits apartment in Jean Nouvel’s MoMA tower

August 29, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
53 West 53 by Andre Fu 36B

Architect André Fu has used pieces from his homeware collection to furnish a model apartment inside the Jean Nouvel tower rising above the city’s Museum of Modern Art. Fu and his Hong Kong studio AFSO created the interiors for a two-bedroom unit in Nouvel’s black 53W53 tower, which topped out in July 2018 and is

The post André Fu outfits apartment in Jean Nouvel’s MoMA tower appeared first on Dezeen.

Jean Nouvel completes “earth-work” library at University of Cyprus

May 28, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Stelios Ioannou Learning Resource Centre at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia by Atelier Jean Nouvel

Atelier Jean Nouvel’s recently completed Stelios Ioannou Learning Resource Center, at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia, has been revealed in photographs by Yiorgis Yerolymbos. Named after Cypriot industrialist Stelios Ioannou, the library in the capital of Cyprus has been designed to look like an artificial hill. “It has been considered as an ‘earth-work’, a gentle echo

The post Jean Nouvel completes “earth-work” library at University of Cyprus appeared first on Dezeen.