Fondation Cartier, Paris


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Like graffiti? Jean Nouvel designed the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris, France. It is only right that kids be free to create street art freely here, as cultural honesty and cubist transparency is the inspiration for the edifice. Glass planes extend from the box structure up into the sky and into the street level.

Art exhibitions extend easily into the neighboring park in a fascinating mixture of built nature and gritty street society. The scale of the details fitting into the tree line and human size is interesting to note.

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