Gizmodo: Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel's Faucets Have Touchsensing PlayStationish Buttons

Jesus Diaz — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:15:00 EDT

Like many other architects, 2008 Pritzker winner Jean Nouvel also designs home objects, like these bathroom faucets and shower with touch sensor technology on four buttons which look taken from a PlayStation gamepad. Pressing the triangles will increase or decrease the temperature, while the circle will open the water flow, and the X will close it. Triangle, triangle, square, circle + square, circle, jump will make Sofia take on Uranus with a special whip move.* [Jado via WowBathrooms]

* BattleArena Toshinden, you pervs.

The Stunning Works of Pritzker Winner Jean Nouvel

Jesus Diaz — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:50:51 EDT

Jean Nouvel has won the Pritzker Prize, the world's most prestigious architecture award. And for a good reason, because his work is simply amazing. We love Nouvel's work for many reasons, from his irregular shapes and spaces, to the use of plants and color LEDs to create almost surreal, night-city creatures that seem taken from a science fiction movie. Here's a 68-picture gallery with his most stunning pieces, from the vibrant Torre Agbar in Barcelona to the alien spaceship of the new Orchestra Hall for the Philharmonie de Paris. Update: due to an error, the 68-pic gallery was incomplete. I've fixed it and the remaining pictures will appear shortly, after the jump.

[Pritzker Prize and Jean Nouvel]

75-Story Skyscraper Will House Overflow for New York's MoMA

AddyDugdale — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:24:29 EST

Jean Nouvel unveiled his design for The Tower at 53rd West 53rd Street this weekend. As well as the now-obligatory apartments and seven-star swank-hotel, the 75-story glass-and-steel structure will have three floors dedicated to housing the overflow collection of the neighboring MoMA. Check the gallery below to see what the skyscraper, whose construction is expected to begin some time next year, is expected to look like.

No stranger to museums, the French architect is the man behind the Fondation Cartier in Paris, the extension to the Reina Sofia gallery in Madrid and the Mus e Quai Branly, also in the French capital. [Dezeen]