Who we are, what we do, where we work

2. For over thirty-five years Ateliers Jean Nouvel has been creating exceptional buildings for exceptional clients.
Atelier means studio or workshop. We are a collaborative studio that creates poetically-charged environments
where technique is at the service of emotion. We are also a workshop, a modern enterprise staffed by highly skilled
professionals capable of leading large international design teams and ensuring successful outcomes for our clients.
The DNA of our company is composed of this double strand.
Our work does not result from considerations of style or ideology, but from an unwavering commitment to create
unique buildings for unique combinations of people, place and time. Our buildings are known for being deeply rooted
in where they are. They transform their surroundings and indelibly mark the cities in which they are built.
This brochure will give you an idea of who we are and what we do. If you would like to know more please get in touch.

3. Who we are
130 staff
20 nationalities
13 languages
Active on 4 continents
900 commissions
16 buildings under construction
35 years of practice
75 % international projects
25M € annual turnover
1 office in Paris, France
21 monographs
2008 Pritzker Prize
2005 Wolf Foundation Prize
2001 Japan Praemium Imperiale Prize
2001 RIBA Royal Gold Medal
1987 Grand Prix national d'architecture
2014 CTBUH Best Tall Building Worldwide for One Central Park (Sydney, Australia)
2012 CTBUH Best Tall Building Worldwide for the Doha office tower (Qatar)
2006 International Highrise Award for the Agbar Tower (Barcelona,Spain)
2001 Borromini Award for the Culture and Congress Center (Lucerne, Switzerland)
1993 Équerre d'Argent for the Opera House (Lyon, France)
1989 Aga Khan Prize for the Arab World Institute (Paris, France)
1987 Équerre d'Argent for the Arab World Institute (Paris, France)
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AWARDS

5. Architecture is rooted in specificity, artistic sensitivity and emotion. We do not come to new commissions with a
pre-established formal language. Instead our work is anchored in the belief that architecture must reverberate deeply
within the local context.
We ask ourselves such questions as: What can we build here that belongs here and nowhere else? How can we
differentiate without caricaturing? How can we achieve depth?
The specificity question goes beyond climatic and functional considerations to embrace everything about a place,
its culture, its history, its traditions, its connections to the world of today. The genius loci, the spirit of place, is
paramount. It allows our architecture to connect, to belong, to interact and to extend beyond its walls.
We think that architecture must create emotions. This age needs architects who seek out the extraordinary, who
appreciate the value of a site, who invent architecture as they design it. We think of architecture as an interface, a
total experience, a beginning and an end, a journey.
Each project is born from an encounter with a client. These encounters often generate lasting friendships that have at
their source a shared enthusiasm for the project. Over the course of a passionate and fascinating dialogue we try to
make the client’s desires, the geographic realities, and the history of the place coincide within an often constraining
framework of administrative requirements.
We welcome clients who understand the importance of architecture as a vehicle to generate returns, be they
commercial or in terms of prestige and world recognition.
We welcome clients who understand that architecture is also the pursuit of pleasure.
What we think

6. URBAN PLANNING
EXHIBITIONS
SCHOOL AND
UNIVERSITY
BUILDINGS
STUDENT
HOUSING
RESIDENTIALLANDSCAPE
NIGHT CLUBS
RELIGIOUS
FACILITIES
PUBLIC
INSTITUTIONS
INDUSTRIAL
BUILDINGS
SOCIAL HOUSING
WORKPLACES
INTERIOR DESIGN
STADIUMS
SPAS
LIBRARIES
CONFERENCE
CENTERS
CONCERT VENUES
FURNITURE
LEISURE
AQUARIUMS
GALLERIES MUSEUMS THEATERS OPERA HOUSES
GRAPHIC DESIGN
CASINOS
COMMERCIAL
CENTERS
TRANSPORTATION
FACILITIES
PORTS
RESTAURANTS HOTELS
ARCHITECTURE
WINERIES
ASSISTED LIVING
RESIDENCES
PRIVATE
RESIDENCES
LUXURY HOUSING
What we do

7. What we build
One New Change London
Louvre Abu Dhabi
Danish Radio Symphony Hall Cophenagen
100 11th
Avenue New York Office Tower Doha

8. Where
we work

9. Each project is unique

10. Culture
Cultural And Congress Center Lucerne
Louvre Abu Dhabi
National Museum of Qatar DohaReina Sofia Museum Extension Madrid

11. Quai Branly Museum Paris
Guthrie Theater Minneapolis
Opera House Lyon Danish Radio Symphony Hall Cophenagen

12. Hotels
Renaissance Hotel Barcelona Hotel Puerta America Madrid
Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom Stilwerk Vienna The Hotel Lucerne
Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom Stilwerk Vienna
Renaissance Hotel Barcelona
Hotel Puerta America Madrid

13. Residential
100 11th
Avenue New York
40 Mercer New York
Cité Manifeste Mulhouse
40 Mercer New York
Foncière Logement-ING Bordeaux

14. One Central Park Sydney 53W53 MoMA Tower New York Life Marina Ibiza
One Central Park Sydney
100 11th
Avenue New York

15. Workplaces
Cartier Foundation Paris
Offices Milano
European Patent Office (prototype) RijswikCartier Foundation Paris
CLMBBDO offices Issy-les-Moulineaux

16. DUO ParisAgbar Tower Barcelona
Office Tower Doha
Richemont Headquarters Geneva

17. 10, cité d'Angoulême 75011 Paris - France
T +33 1 49 23 83 83 F +33 1 43 14 81 10
www.jeannouvel.com / info@jeannouvel.fr
@ateliersjnouvel / Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Ateliers Jean Nouvel is a simplified professional
corporation owned, through holding companies,
by Jean Nouvel (50%) and François Fontès (50%).
President François Fontès
Chief Executive Officer Jules Nyssen
Managing Director Diane Clerc
Director of Development Brian Wait
Director of External Relations Emmanuel Blamont
Director of Communications Olivier Schmitt
Director of Operations Mathieu Forest
Director of Administration & Finance Rita Davin