Jean Nouvel's buildings in Paris

Map of 4 locations in Paris, France

Nouvel has been building in Paris for four decades, from the moucharabieh façade that made his name in 1987 to the Palais-Royal rooms he reworked for Cartier in 2025, and most of the results are places a member of the public can walk into rather than offices behind a badge reader. This list gathers the Paris commissions with a front door, notes who commissioned each one and in what year it was handed over, and says plainly which ones charge and which are step-free. Where a building has moved, as the Fondation Cartier did, the earlier Nouvel address is recorded too.

Places in this collection

  • Philharmonie de Paris — The client handed the new building to Ateliers Jean Nouvel in April 2007 and it opened in 2015, standing alongside the older Cité de la mus…
  • Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain — The foundation, founded in 1984 with a holding of more than 4,000 works, moved in October 2025 into the Louvre des Antiquaires, an 1885 blo…
  • Institut du monde arabe — Nouvel worked here with Gilbert Lézénès, Pierre Soria and Architecture-Studio, the team chosen in 1981 for the first of Mitterrand's grands…
  • Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac — The project was pushed through by Jacques Chirac and inaugurated on 20 June 2006, with Ateliers Jean Nouvel responsible for the building an…

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