Jean Nouvel and Fondation Cartier mark 40th anniversary with new building announcement

2024-09-17T16:34:00-04:00

Jean Nouvel has put forth a new plan for the Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain in Paris. The adaptive reuse project, which was announced Tuesday by the 40-year-old private foundation, will take shape within an existing Haussmann-era building on the Place du Palais-Royal across from the Louvre for the end of 2025.

Novel’s effort will address the current architecture's urban context while opening up the former Louvre des Antiquaires facility to the Parisian public in a whole new way.

Photo: © Martin Argyroglo

First and foremost, this will be a space dedicated to what the Fondation Catier’s founder Alain Dominique Perrin called the "transversality" of art-making. A total of 6,500 square meters (or, 69,965 square feet) will be available for a flexible layout of exhibitions. The space is augmented by five mobile platforms that allow the building’s surface areas to be modified and reconfigured into a layered series of vertical spaces up to 11 meters (36 feet) high.

Photo: © Martin ...

Fondation Cartier gives up island vision

2014-06-03T13:54:00-04:00

The Fondation Cartier, the Paris-based contemporary art foundation, has abandoned plans to relocate from its central Paris premises [...]. In 2011, the president and founder of the Fondation Cartier, Alain Dominique Perrin, asked the French architect Jean Nouvel, to draw up preliminary plans for a new base on Ile Seguin. But Perrin tells The Art Newspaper that he has decided to enlarge the Fondation’s current premises in Boulevard Raspail, and will commission Nouvel to work on the expansion.

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Jean Nouvel and Fondation Cartier mark 40th anniversary with new building announcement

Fondation Cartier gives up island vision