After more than four years of construction, Jean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi will finally open to the public on November 11. Images of the ambitious project, spanned by a 262-foot latticed, ...

The Louvre Abu Dhabi, which opened its doors on Wednesday, started life as a simple sketch on a restaurant napkin, says French architect Jean Nouvel. It is a welcome triumph for Nouvel, who admits he ...

"We didn't want to do a building, we wanted to create a neighborhood,” said Hala Wardé of the Louvre Abu Dhabi, which opened its doors to press today in anticipation of its official opening on ...

French Pritzker Prize–winning architect Jean Nouvel‘s design for Louvre Abu Dhabi has begun construction after a series of delays. The building’s most prominent feature is a 180-meter-diameter dome.

In a city full of skyscrapers, the Louvre Abu Dhabi is a striking addition. Built on its own man-made island, the museum’s centerpiece dome – 180 meters wide and weighing almost as much as the Eiffel ...

The Louvre Abu Dhabi is the fruit of a 2007 intergovernmental agreement between France and the United Arab Emirates. Ground broke at the museum site in 2009 and the opening has been delayed several ...

Renderings: Jean Nouvel His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, today welcomed French President ...

Jean Nouvel‘s Louvre Abu Dhabi – the first universal museum in the Arab world – will open its doors to the public on November 11th. Nestled underneath a huge porous dome, the museum galleries will ...

The images, posted to Twitter by French ambassador to the UAE Ludovic Pouille following a recent trip to Abu Dhabi, show the building’s 7,700-ton dome as well as some of the interior gallery spaces ...

One of the most anticipated projects in the Persian Gulf and in the course of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel’s career opens today in Abu Dhabi. Dedicated to exhibiting artwork that ...

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