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Jean Nouvel’s Massive MoMA ‘Death Spire’ Plan Back on Track

Jean Nouvel’s Massive MoMA ‘Death Spire’ Plan Back on Track

Plans for Jean Nouvel’s Death Spire (Torre Verre) atop the Museum of Modern Art were thought to have met their demise in 2009, but lo and behold the spire will rise again! Development giant Hines has

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Patrick Blanc Unveils New Vertical Garden at the Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom Stilwerk

Patrick Blanc Unveils New Vertical Garden at the Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom Stilwerk

The opening of Jean Nouvel’s latest project, Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom Stilwerk has been met with much fanfare, and as we read through the reviews we saw another famous name that caught our eye.

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Patrick Blanc’s Vertical Gardens

Patrick Blanc’s Vertical Gardens

Vertical Wall on Jean Nouvel’s Musée du quai Branly Plants have found a home on walls for centuries, but are sometimes incongruous with architecture, often breaking down the structural integrity of

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Jean Nouvel’s Stunning Museum Façade Dilates to Let in Daylight

Jean Nouvel’s Stunning Museum Façade Dilates to Let in Daylight

France’s longstanding relationship with Islamic culture is embodied in Jean Nouvel‘s stunning Institut du Monde Arabe. The visionary design surprised the 19 donor nations when they first saw

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Jean Nouvel Unveils Sustainably-Designed National Museum of Qatar

Jean Nouvel Unveils Sustainably-Designed National Museum of Qatar

Yesterday the Qatar Museum Authority and Jean Nouvel (Pritzker Prize-winning architect) unveiled plans for the new National Museum of Qatar. The cultural center is inspired by the desert architecture and

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Jean Nouvel Unveils Reflective LEED Certified Skyscraper in NYC

Jean Nouvel Unveils Reflective LEED Certified Skyscraper in NYC

French architect Jean Nouvel recently unveiled a shining new LEED Certified skyscraper on 11th avenue in New York City. The building features a stunning facade composed of 1,700 different panes of glass

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Axis Mundi Unveils Alternative Design for MoMA Tower

Axis Mundi Unveils Alternative Design for MoMA Tower

Jenga, anyone? This crazy kaleidoscope of architectural wonder is architect John Beckmann and his firm, Axis Mundi‘s alternative (and we mean alternative) vision of the much-discussed 53 W. 53rd

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Jean Nouvel’s “Green Blade” Slices LA Skyline

Jean Nouvel’s “Green Blade” Slices LA Skyline

Aptly nicknamed the “green blade,” Jean Nouvel’s newest addition to the asphalt laden City of Angels slices through the concrete jungle at 10,000 Santa Monica, adding much needed

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FRASERS BROADWAY: Australia’s Greenest Development

FRASERS BROADWAY: Australia’s Greenest Development

Big things are happening in Sydney. First Earth Hour, which began in Sydney, went global last month. Then, the city unveiled its brand new 2030 vision, which outlines the steps that the city will take to

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Jean Nouvel Wins the 2008 Pritzker Prize

Jean Nouvel Wins the 2008 Pritzker Prize

Groundreaking architect Jean Nouvel has inspired and influenced international architecture (and many of us here at Inhabitat) for over three decades with creative interpretations of culture, location,

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Jean Nouvel’s LOUISIANA MANIFESTO

Jean Nouvel’s LOUISIANA MANIFESTO

“Each new situation requires a new architecture.” Jean Nouvel French new wave architect Jean Nouvel is probably most famous for his L’Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. Seeing that

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