Jean Nouvel

In Seoul, an imposing and precious glass encasing preserves and yet reveals extraordinary treasures of fine craftsmanship: the new Dolce & Gabbana boutique at Cheongdam-dong, in the Gangnam District, is an architectural ode to the encounter between love for tradition and ceaseless innovation.

Created in synergy with the Ateliers Jean Nouvel studios for the architectural design and Jean Nouvel Design for the interiors, the building is located in the main luxury retail street of Seoul and is characterized externallyby the evanescence of its volumes, which redesign the district’s profile.

The boutique hosts the Ready to Wear, Accessories, Fine Jewellery and Watches Collection for Women and Man and the Made to Measure services by Dolce & Gabbana Sartoria.

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The Fondazione Alda Fendi ‑ Esperimenti houses exhibition spaces (through a cultural collaboration agreement with the Hermitage Museum), shops of a cultural nature on street level and also small apartments for passing art lovers, for artists……

It is located in one of the most celebrated places in history: the Roman Forum. The Fondazione Alda Fendi ‑ Esperimenti occupies three historic buildings situated a stone’s throw from the Temple of Vesta and the Arch of Janus. The Fondazione faces the Palatine Hill and has a view over all of Rome, its famous hills and its centuries‑old cupolas. We are in the very centre of Roman history, in buildings that were once purely residential and which have undergone numerous transformations over the years. The 19th and 20th century inhabitants have left behind them walled‑up windows, strange walls, period tiles and twisted cracks…

It is difficult to build in Rome. An architect is logically obliged to respect the hierarchy of historic architecture, so we are bound by a great sobriety.

On the facades we have preserved everything that could testify to the passage of time… emphasizing the different layers to reveal a building that has stopped ageing without the aid of plastic surgery (all its wrinkles are loved and preserved)… This approach anchors these buildings more firmly in history.

In this context, there has been no significant modification of the facades, but a reconsideration of how the surrounding landscape is framed through the windows and terraces.

Reassessing the building also means playing with all the interior differences and features to create 25 unique apartments. Each apartment has different views framed by windows changed over time, often narrowed and sometimes even walled up.

The most significant changes were mostly in the interior. A particular process was conceived, where photographs showing how the apartments looked before the intervention were printed on the internal shutters. Those photos create an internal and external trompe‑l’oeuil effect that captures the natural light like spotlights. When we illuminate the buildings at night the trees growing around them project their shadows on the facades. This nocturnal image becomes even clearer with the colours programmed by the new internal shutters …

The presence of modernity in the apartments is accentuated by indispensable equipment such as kitchens and bathrooms. These pure and visible objects are blocks of stainless steel that contrast with the patina of the walls, that in themselves are studies of different layers of paint, cracks and heterogeneous materials. A plastic interpretation of the passage of time and sedimentation.

This furniture is positioned in a direct and clear manner. So an optimal contrast is created between the objects of modern life and what remains of this ancient world that received them: the old tiles preserved, the new metal structures for the architraves, the pillars and the stairs plainly mark a new layer in the historic sedimentation. It is a play of encounters, a collision of epochs from the most ancient to the most modern. It is a meeting between two worlds, between the traces of the noblest and most spiritual of ancient architecture and these domestic buildings, witnesses that record they are still alive and vital, that they are buildings in Rome enjoying a privileged situation. The terrace with its incredible belvedere restaurant is proof of this day and night: it’s an instrument made to be admired.

What is also exceptional is its ability to frame what is laid out before it: the ruins and umbrella pines and in the distance the line of the sky, the hills and the Roman cupolas as if in a cyclorama.

Jean Nouvel

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In collaboration with Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Samuel Nageotte Architectures

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Two exhibition space stands behind the redesigned facade with two large front windows.

Upon the entrance, several interactive screens showcase the different stages of the development of RBC, or announce the current events. The focus has been on the more than 20-meter perspective that separates the entrance from the main exhibition spaces.

The three levels are designed as a free plan, allowing multiple layouts and reconfigurations. The floors are sober and unified by a gray resin, with white walls.

The upper level thought of as a carte blanche to accommodate exhibitions and other events is flooded with light.

Under the broad glass roof canopy, made of structured glass offering a optical effect, a glass floor diffuses natural light to the two lower levels.

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An area of ​​100 sqm on two levels, right on the corner of the legendary boulevard and rue de Buci, Here is where Jean Nouvel Design offers graphic designs combining geometric lines and artistic motifs.

From the street, the eye is drawn to a specific pattern created and inspired by Impressionist paintings. On the ground floor, the pattern runs along a large backlit wall measuring 13 meters, extending behind the stairs where it featured on the ceiling of the first-floor. Where a corresponding lightbox, hangs from the ceiling, creating bursts of intense color.

The natural oak flooring punctuate a more complex space; monolithic volumes of wood, custom-made furniture are merged into the geometry of the floor and serve as storage and display units.

Inside, clothing rods include a lighting device and a second directional and steerable lights to illuminate walls and ceilings.

Cacharel : 40 rue de Buci, 75006 Paris

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“I particularly liked the idea of amplifying the installation showing the reconstructed caves of Lascaux 3 at Gwangmyeong, and I wanted to take to Korea the memory of landscapes I’ve been familiar with since childhood.

I also like the edge-of-town site, as green as it is industrial, of the old Gwangmyeong mine. It seemed interesting to set a project down there like a question mark, the Lascaux cave being one of the great mysteries of humanity. And so, the installation that is going to Gwangmyeong to house Lascaux 3 will itself be an enigma.

Externally, the building will consist of containers of varying heights: I’ve imagined it as being abstract and black, an evocation of night and the darkness of the cave. Over the piled-up volumes, which emerge from each other, the paleontologists’ findings will appear, along with the drawings from the cave, like traces of chalk on a huge black blackboard.

The containers are 12 metres long. Inside, their structures will create a neat mathematical system, with a volumetry that will serve as a backdrop for the evocation of the scenery and biotopes of the cave and surrounds; of the Vézère River, which snakes around the foot of Lascaux, with its forests of oak and chestnut trees, its rocks, ferns and mosses, which are for me the heart and soul of the Périgord. Images will be streamed all round to create an intense image-surround like a cyclorama in relief, immersing the visitor in an atmospheric impression of a cavernous world, a world of somber and intriguing forest undergrowth. Almost all of the volumes will look to be covered in images, but without it being clear where the spatial limits are. This indefinable cyclorama will contrastingly house the heart of the travelling Lascaux 3 exhibition, with the course the exhibition takes, as it moves between darkness and light, progressively uncovering the very heart of the exhibition with its reproductions of caves, simulations, and interactive educational elements… Visitors’ silhouettes will be projected, like so many ghostly presences, over the walls. As visitors stroll along, their shadows will conjure up those that people the myth of Plato’s cave, thereby creating the magic of this trip in time and space.”

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More informations about “Lascaux, the international exhibition” :

www.lascaux-expo.fr

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“Wallpaper* marks its passage through Milan…

Its brand leaves its mark, signage, lights and their reflections highlight the arcade between via Felice Casati and via San Gregorio.

Precious and precisely cut aluminium has been eroded as if by raining tears that left their trail on the metal. The Wallpaper * asterisk – a lucky star – is scattered randomly across the stone floor to grab the attention, provoke conversation and draw visitors to the show, devoted this year to the spirit of the hotel.”

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Long and narrow, the space is openly exposed to visitors directly at the door thanks to a periscope effect that greatly increases the perceived depth of the place and brings the bustle of the town into the very back of the shop.

On both levels, the client is enveloped by the warmth of wood that plays on the contrast in finishes between matte and glossy. The floor in matte teak is worked like the bridge of a boat and runs the entire length of the shop. The walls are dressed in large varnished teak panels with mirror-effect surfaces, and, on the ceiling, fine strips of wood reiterate the lines of the floor. The whole space is punctuated by recesses for showing the clothes that act like theatre sketches.

In this new refurbishment everything is about perspective. The view changes depending on where you’re standing. Nothing is predictable, everything is a surprise.

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Invited to overhaul Ruco Line boutiques worldwide, he thereby takes up a major contemporary challenge: how to prolong the memory and retain the specificity of real places, wherever they happen to be, while “replicating” a concept and maintaining a single brand, from one city to another and from one continent to another.

Jean Nouvel draws inspiration from, and anchors each project in, the ornamental features that characterise the existing spaces. In each boutique, he chooses to focus on the envelope, bringing out the original formal characteristics by amplifying them. The envelope is magnified and particularised through an envelope of white plaster.

In this form of revealed architecture, the scenography peculiar to each store is set up through the creation of “tableaux” based on frames of metal rods. These frames define each space, marking the walls as well as the floor and ceiling, and acting as supports for Ruco Line shoes and bags. Each space stages its own unique tableau, featuring Ruco Line products.

Tall luminous totem poles shed bright white light that spreads over the ceiling, highlighting the formal singularity of each store.

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