In Progress: Louvre Abu Dhabi / Jean Nouvel
All climates like exceptions. Warmer when it is cold. Cooler in the tropics. People do not resist thermal shock well. Nor do works of art. Such elementary observations have influenced the Louvre Abu Dhabi. It wishes to create a welcoming world serenely combining light and shadow, reflection and calm. It wishes to belong to a country, to its history, to its geography without becoming a flat translation, the pleonasm that results in boredom and convention. It also aims at emphasizing the fascination generated by rare encounters.
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Architects: Jean Nouvel
Location: Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: TDIC
Roof Plan with Dome
Roof Plan without Dome
All climates like exceptions. Warmer when it is cold. Cooler in the tropics. People do not resist thermal shock well. Nor do works of art. Such elementary observations have influenced the Louvre Abu Dhabi. It wishes to create a welcoming world serenely combining light and shadow, reflection and calm. It wishes to belong to a country, to its history, to its geography without becoming a flat translation, the pleonasm that results in boredom and convention. It also aims at emphasizing the fascination generated by rare encounters.
© TDIC
It is rather unusual to find a built archipelago in the sea. It is even more uncommon t...
© TDIC
Architects: Jean Nouvel
Location: Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: TDIC
Roof Plan with Dome
Roof Plan without Dome
All climates like exceptions. Warmer when it is cold. Cooler in the tropics. People do not resist thermal shock well. Nor do works of art. Such elementary observations have influenced the Louvre Abu Dhabi. It wishes to create a welcoming world serenely combining light and shadow, reflection and calm. It wishes to belong to a country, to its history, to its geography without becoming a flat translation, the pleonasm that results in boredom and convention. It also aims at emphasizing the fascination generated by rare encounters.
© TDIC
It is rather unusual to find a built archipelago in the sea. It is even more uncommon t...
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