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a+u 587. 2019:08. Arabic Context and Culture - 3 Projects by Jean Nouvel

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  • Paperback
  • Engels, Japans
  • 160 pagina's
  • 2 aug. 2019

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.

This issue of a+u magazine also profiles several recent buildings by Valerio Olgiati, Frank Gehry, Smiljan Radić, BIG, Peter Märkli, Peter Zumthor, and Eduardo Souto de Moura.

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.

This issue of a+u magazine also profiles several recent buildings by Valerio Olgiati, Frank Gehry, Smiljan Radić, BIG, Peter Märkli, Peter Zumthor, and Eduardo Souto de Moura.

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