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Philippe Ruault

This year —the Serpentine’s 40th Anniversary— the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is designed by world-renowned French architect Jean Nouvel. This 2010 Pavilion is the 10th commission in the Gallery’s annual series, the world’s first and most ambitious architectural programme of its kind. It will be the architect’s first completed building in the UK. More info and images after the break.

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Franco di Capua has shared with us another of his amazing videos, Minimetró by Jean Nouvel. 

In 2001, the Perugia Municipality decided to hand over to AJN the architectural design for the “MiniMetro” project. The project covers a length of 3 kilometres, including a 1.5 kilometre viaduct that connects the city outskirts with the town’s historical centre. The new line, its 7 stations and 2 end stations, Pian de Massiano and Pincetto, were inaugurated in January 2008. The project is inscribed in a complicated topography of hills that characterizes the land of Perugia. More info and pictures after the break. 

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Since 2000 the Serpertine Gallery has commissioned world’s most renowned architects to design a temporary pavilion during the summer time, one of the requirements to be selected as the architect of the Pavilion is not building anything ever before in London. The list includes architects such as Zaha Hadid, Frank Ghery, Rem Koolhaas, Toyo Ito, Daniel Libeskind, Oscar Niemeyer, Alvaro Siza and last years SANAA.

The Serpentine Gallery has announced that Jean Nouvel has been selected to design this years Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. More images and info after the break.

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The Associated Press reported that Jean Nouvel’s proposed 82-story tower next to the Museum of Modern Art has cleared its final hurdle. The New York City Council voted Wednesday to approve the plan for a 1000-foot mixed-use tower on West 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues. The museum called the approval “a major milestone” for its plans to add over 40,000 square feet of new gallery space — a 30 percent increase.

Nouvel’s design maximizes the site while considering the city’s zoning envelope. The proposed building’s unique silhouette tapers as it rises to a distinctive spire. Its steel and glass façade reveals the diagrid structural design. Gerald D. Hines, chairman of Hines, commented, “Nouvel’s exciting concept has the potential to become an international architectural design icon.” The Hines firm has collaborated with Nouvel on both 40 Mercer in New York’s SoHo neighborhood and on the C1 Tower currently under development in Paris.