One of France’s most important contemporary architects has designed the immense (2,800m2) new H&M flagship, the brand’s 12th store for Paris, opening on the Champs Elysées on 6 Oct. Apparently the facade of the new store will be covered with video screens and lights, and inside will have an industrial vibe.
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For the first time, the Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton is concentrating on just two artists: gothic Paris-based architect Odile Decq, who has been in the press lately for her extension of Rome’s Museum of Contemporary Art, is head to head with artist Camille Henrot, pre-selected for this year’s Marcel Duchamp contemporary art prize. [...] Invited to present a children’s workshop over summer ‘Kawamata Carton Workshop‘, the Paris based Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata has also installed 6 architectural haikus in the form of crude wooden huts on to the facade of the Pompidou Centre. The at once precarious and monumental parasites add an apocalyptic or bucolic aspect to the [...] ‘I am of a generation for whom the big city meant a centre of cultural influence (London, Paris, New York) or economic power (London, New York); now it has become a theme park (Las Vegas, Dubai), a vast camp (the cities of China) or an architectural aberration and utter social hotchpotch [...] The provincial French town of Metz, 3 hours east of Paris, is soon to become a new art destination thanks to this spring’s opening of a ‘branch’ of Paris’s Pompidou Centre, marking the first decentralisation of a French public cultural institution. Like its Paris sibling, the Centre Pompidou-Metz will be dedicated to 20th- and 21st-century [...] The temporary exhibition in the Palais de Tokyo’s mezzanine gives visitors the chance to escape to a small group of Japanese islands where Benesse Art Site Naoshima has been conducting a 20-year experiment on the relationship between art-architecture and society. The project began with a series of architectural commissions by Tadao Ando on the island [...] Taschen welcomed customers to its chic, Starck-designed Paris store Thursday night to meet its newest author. Jean Nouvel by Jean Nouvel. Complete Works 1970-2008 celebrates the Pritzer prize-winning architect. One of the most original and innovative of architects, Jean Nouvel is famous for his work across the globe (Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Lyon Opera [...] |
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