Again, Jean Nouvel – one of my favorite architects – and one of his most notorious towers with a crude nickname.
Its normally blu-ish throughout the day, this (badly taken) photo was during sunset. The facade is simply colourful corrugated steel panels with plain old louvres around the entire building.
Thanks to our Traveler’s Phaidon Atlas, we anticipated Jean Nouvel’s Culture & Congress Centre. The cantilever is even bigger it looks in photos. It’s a Monday, most European museums are closed on Mondays. Therefore, it was really cool to see so many people still using the public space even though it was closed. The building is very successful in those respects.
Check out the thickness of the glass mullions.
I love Jean Nouvel’s work. Jeff finds it interesting, not necessarily “good”.
You really have to be there to appreciate the detail, especially in the windows. Each individual “hole” has its own aperture, I observed that they are all at different configurations, maybe they are micro managed by computers?
a young capricious architect chronicling an itch to backpack around the world and discover the deeper qualities of architecture, food and people.