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 travaux. The south wall of moucharabieh apertures, finished in 1987, is the part that made his name with a general public: mechanical diaphragms set in a glass curtain, reading the light. Four bus routes, the 67, 75, 87 and 89, stop at a sheltered platform named after the building, though that platform is mapped as having no tactile paving.

Address

1, rue des Fossés-Saint-Bernard

Year Completed

1987

Building Type

Cultural Institute

Category: Culture & History

Tags: jean nouvel, 1987, grands travaux, moucharabieh, architecture-studio

Coordinates: 48.8490884, 2.3558926

Part of Jean Nouvel's buildings in Paris

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