Centre de Poble Nou Park

Jean Nouvel

Information In June 2008, Jean Nouvel presented

in Barcelona, the Centre de Poble Nou Park, a gigantic sustainable garden of 5,5 hectares designed as ‘meeting point’ and ‘acoustic microclimate’ playing with light and shadows.

The main garden of the park has a forest very well organized ending at one end of the park with a ramp of volcanic soil. In the second garden, the woodland surrounds the building of the old Oliva-Art factory and takes the citizens through a visual and olfactory experience. In the third garden the most prominent feature is a crater that carries the visitor with a spiral to the ‘center of the Earth’.

Jean Nouvel Jean Nouvel was born in 1945

at Fumel, a village in the South West France. He worked with an architectural firm while attending school. Since 1975, Nouvel has worked to create a stylistic language separate from that of modernism and post-modernism.

Within nearly all of his

designs, Nouvel consistently presents an interplay of transparency, shadow, and light.

In 1981 Jean Nouvel won the competition for a series of "great projects" requested by Francois Mitterrand, the French President. In 1987 he was awarded the "Grand Prix d'Architecture" for his whole body of work and the "Equerre d'Argent" for his design work on minimalist pieces of furniture.

Other Buildings

Nemausus I public housing in Nimes, France

Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Tour de Verre , New York

Agbar Tower in Barcelona, Spain