From Peru to the Netherlands, from Cyprus to Doha, via La Défense, Antony, Lyon and Marseille, Ateliers Jean Nouvel deliver you the key dates for the year ahead: 42 projects underway and 8 finished projects to open.
LIMA, PEROU
REAL DOS - OFFICE BLOCK
Located in Lima’s San Isidro district – the heart of commercial activity in Peru – Real Dos is a building of 24,000 sq.m. that brings together offices, restaurants and retail outlets. The mixed-use program is spread over 23 floors and enjoys the amenity of a verdant roof garden and full-height vertical gardens. The glass envelope is doubled with mobile coloured panels, thereby revisiting the chromatic aesthetic of Peru.
ANTONY, FRANCE
THE JEAN ZAY HALL OF RESIDENCE
Built in 1954 by Eugène Beaudoin, the university residence Jean Zay is an architecture with industrialized processes typical of the Reconstruction and Glorious Trents.
The EPO site in The Hague, at Patentlaan 2 in Rijswijk, represents the characteristic polder, with the horizontality of a sea turned to stone. And the biggest structures, too, line up like boats on the water. The location calls for a proposal that reveals its real nature, the eternal issue of the specific magic of a place. The poetics of location arising from the vastness of this strictly horizontal stretch of land that makes the horizons look distant, and rolls out an endless sky.
YCONE
FRANCE, MARSEILLE
LA MARSEILLAISE - OFFICE TOWER
Located on the Quays of Arenc, this 135-meter office tower falls within the scope of the Euroméditerranée urban renewal project. Light, its facades "sky blue", "white of the rare cloud", "red ocher and brick roofs and surrounding walls" refer to the landscape of the Phocaean city.
NICOSIE, CHYPRE
LEARNING SOURCE CENTER - UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS
The documentation and information center of the University of Cyprus takes the form of a mound, an evocation of the geography of this part of the island.
LA DÉFENSE, PUTEAUX, FRANCE
CAMPUSÉA - STUDENT RESIDENCE
Located in Puteaux, in the heart of La Défense, this 400-unit university residence is part of the development project "Rose de Cherbourg". It accompanies with its 70 meters height the future Hekla tower which, located on the same parcel, will reach 220 meters.
QATAR, DOHA
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF QATAR
This building, made of interwoven disks, emphasizes the meeting of the desert and the sea: "The architecture of the museum, its structure are symbolic of the mysteries of the concretions, the crystallizations of the desert and we can guess the intersections of the petals sharpened roses of the sand. "
