Jean Nouvel News
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It began in a Starbucks Corp. coffee shop in Berlin six years ago. Los Angeles Philharmonic Association President Deborah Borda and conductor Gustavo Dudamel decided to ask architect Frank Gehry to design sets for a trilogy of Mozart operas Dudamel wanted to stage.
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Louvre Abu Dhabi -- a Gulf offshoot of the Paris museum that’s set to open in 2015 -- today revealed pieces from its permanent collection to reporters, showing works by Picasso, Gauguin, Manet and Magritte.
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Dizzee Rascal was the surprise performer last night for a party at the Serpentine Gallery’s summer pavilion, designed this year by the Pritzker Prize- winning Jean Nouvel .
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Two years after opening a Paris branch, Gagosian, the world’s biggest commercial gallery network, this week inaugurates a big space in Le Bourget -- on the grounds of a Paris airport where private jets land.
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French presidents, like the nation’s kings before them, have a tradition of commissioning grandiose monuments to be remembered by. That may end with the current occupant of the presidential Elysee Palace.
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Forget cheese and chocolate. Switzerland’s latest successful export is architects.
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Every few years, Avery Fisher Hall’s board remembers the place is really an ugly failure and stirs itself into inaction.
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Architect Wang Shu’s answer to the wholesale destruction of historic Chinese cities is to collect the stones of demolished buildings and install them in new ones.
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Paris’s Praetorium, a seven-story office building that opened in 2009, was hailed as the first step in President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan to revitalize the city’s La Defense skyscraper district. Today, it’s still empty.
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As confetti and balloons fall from the ceiling, scores of bankers dressed as characters from TV shows and movies hit the dance floor in a circus-sized party tent in Lima, Peru. Jedi knights from Star Wars wave glowing green light sabers while the Flintstones groove to blasting techno-pop. Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor, one of Latin America’s least known billionaires, joins the throng, wearing a white wig, a silly hat and a big smile.
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