Jean Nouvel. Residences at 100 11th Ave

map: 100 11th Ave, New York, New York

In Chelsea's waterfront, Jean Nouvel's 2nd building in NY is right in front of Ghery's IAC headquarters

Here is a selection of pictures I've taken by october 2010

The balconies on the lower floors are disguised behind the steel structure, creating an intriging layout of gardens. This view from the entrance is much more interesting than the street view

These are the stairs to the entrance

The side facade and the front ones have two different languages. I didn't like this, it lacks authenticity, the facade acts like a mask and the building looses it's strength.

• see more of my own New York pictures

• read critic by Paul Goldberger @ The Newyorker

Jean Nouvel. Residences at 100 11th Ave

Jean Nouvel. Louvre Abu Dhabi

map : Saadiyat Island, Cultural District, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
or
map : Saadiyat district map

QUOTES & FACTS:

- This micro-city requires a micro-climate that would give the visitor a feeling of entering a different world. The building is covered with a large dome, a form common to all civilisations.
This one is made of a web of different patterns interlaced into a translucent ceiling which lets a diffuse, magical light come through in the best tradition of great Arabian architecture.
Water is given a crucial role, both in reflecting every part of the building and acting as a psyche, and in creating, with a little help from the wind, a comfortable micro- climate that will give visitors a feeling of entering a different world.” J.Nouvel
- “Abu Dhabi’s ultimate goal in creating the Louvre Abu Dhabi, and indeed the entire Saadiyat Island Cultural District, is to build a platform for deeper and more meaningful exchange among people from our own region and from all parts of the globe,”. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates.
- a 24,000 sq m complex of pavilions, plazas, alleyways and canals 'evoking the image of a city floating on the sea'. Hovering over the complex will be a form inspired by traditional Arabic architecture: a vast, shallow, perforated dome—some 180 metres in diameter.
- It will feature artworks loaned from several top French museums, including the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, le Centre Pompidou, the Musée de Quai Branly and the Musée Guimet.


click : Saadiyat Island official site

click : "Construction under way on Jean Nouvel's Louvre Abu Dhabi" on bdcnetwork.com 5/26/09

click: "Starchitects Join Abu Dhabi’s Big Cultural Gambit" by Robert Such on Archrecord
5/2007

click : Nouvel's official site

Jean Nouvel. Louvre Abu Dhabi