Jean Nouvel designed the Galeries Lafayette in Berlin’s Friedrichstrasse in 1996.
It is no accident that Nouvel’s post-modernist design, this reinvention of the traditional shopping palace, takes on a scientific look. Glazed cones imitate the Paris Galeries atrium, sometimes inverting and sometimes rising clear past the roof-line. They aren’t functional or nor really building a particular experience, but they are curious.
(jan.martin– flickr/creative commons license)
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(featured image by Jensens, wikipedia/public domain)
