Ateliers Jean Nouvel
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Ateliers Jean Nouvel (AJN) is an international design firm based in Paris, founded in 1994 by Jea Nouvel and Michel Pélissié. Notable projects include: Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Philharmonie de Paris complex.

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One Central Park

With a dramatic cantilever and carefully coordinated sets of mirrors, a design team brings sunlight into a new development in Sydney.
Elizabeth Farrelly
February 15, 2015
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With a dramatic cantilever and carefully coordinated sets of mirrors, a design team brings sunlight into a new development in Sydney.


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Renaissance Barcelona Fira Hotel

Urban Oasis: Ateliers Jean Nouvel creates a lively, playful hotel tower amid the city's dismal fringes.
David Cohn
June 16, 2013
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For the Renaissance Barcelona Fira Hotel, sited near a convention center on the highway to the city's airport, Jean Nouvel took on the challenge of making meaningful architecture out of what Rem Koolhaas famously defined as “junkspace“—the anonymous, generic sprawl that rings cities everywhere.


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Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom

December 16, 2011
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Program: An 18-story, 570,487-square-foot hotel with 182 rooms, 9 conference rooms, a fitness club, a top-floor restaurant with panoramic views, retail space, and five levels of below-ground parking. Design concept and solution: Rather than design a rectilinear tower, the architects imagined the Vienna Sofitel as an abstract volume of tilting planes of glass. They gave the structure—which is concrete for the building's first five stories and a mix of steel and concrete for the remainder—a trapezoidal footprint. With a mix of gray, black, white, mirrored, and transparent glass, the facade produces a dynamic range of reflections. The five-story base of
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Les Bains des Docks

With Les Bains des Docks, a serene oasis on Le Havre's gritty waterfront, Ateliers Jean Nouvel reinvents the public pool.
Sarah Amelar
August 19, 2009
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Passengers arriving by ferry or ocean liner in the French port of Le Havre have, for decades, satisfied the urge to step on the gas pedal and speed away.


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