Tag Dominique Perrault

11-04-2011

Perrault’s Fukoku Tower in Osaka

Dominique Perrault’s Fukoku Tower in Osaka will provide a possible definition of sustainability. The French archistar sees architecture as a question of materials, of inventive composition and of relating to the landscape, elements which must co-exist to raise a work of architecture to the status of landmark.

25-02-2010

Perrault and the Ewha Womans University in Seoul

A monumental project in the heart of Seoul for the campus of Ewha, the historic women’s university. Dominique Perrault translates the city’s need for symbolic reference points into a symbol surrounded by greenery which is not only a landmark but a reconciliation of internal comfort with conscious use of environmental resources.

10-07-2007

M-Preis Supermarkets. Wattens (Austria). Dominique Perrault. 2000

In 1999 the French architect Dominique Perrault received an appointment to design the first supermarket for the new chain, M-Preis, with a specific request by the commissioning party to join the requirements of order and distribution with innovative design.

20-09-2006

Innsbruck Town Hall. Dominique Perrault. 2002

A town square, an old building, and a spectacular, often snowy mountain landscape: Innsbruck, the capital of Tirol (Austria), decided to build a new town hall and new public spaces in 1996.

02-08-2006

Vénissieux mediateque. Dominique Perrault. 2001

A "box" structure with clean lines and regular geometries: Dominique Perrault's Vénissieux Mediateque is based on the criterion of simplicity, clarity and comprehension. This "container for knowledge" seems to want to offer us an example of a universally understandable language.

Olympic Tennis Stadium<br> Dominique Perrault. Madrid. 2002

02-12-2005

Olympic Tennis Stadium
Dominique Perrault. Madrid. 2002

Dominique Perrault's new Olympic Stadium for the Spanish capital is a big, clear luminous box that seems to have no walls at night, revealing its interiors, its colours and the geometry of its forms.

Dominique Perrault<br> Expansion of Mariinskiy Theatre <br>St. Petersburg

21-03-2005

Dominique Perrault
Expansion of Mariinskiy Theatre
St. Petersburg

Investigation of intentionally innovative forms of urban equilibrium, a desire to make a binding mark, capacity to apply technological innovation to doing architecture: the art of Dominique Perrault, confirming the French master's aspiration to alter existing constructions in order to modify the way we perceive them, appears once again in the expansion for St. Petersburg's Mariinskiy Theatre.