Catherine Slessor, Get Cartier! How Jean Nouvel turned an old Paris department store into a museum to rival the Louvre, The Guardian, 10 October 2025
Come what may, Jean Nouvel will always have Paris. The City of Lights has been the stage and stomping ground of French architecture’s vieux terrible since the early 1980s. Yet the building that first made his name – the Institut du Monde Arabe, a glittering, delicate, metallic creation inset with mechanical lenses to regulate light – is a lifetime away from the bemusement that met his last Parisian project, completed a decade ago.