In 1994, the Cartier Foundation left its headquarters in Jouy-en-Josas to settle on Boulevard Raspail in an all-glass building designed by Jean Nouvel. Thirty years later, the famous architect is preparing to deliver his new interpretation of this cultural center. Taking place within the former Louvre des Antiquaires, at the intersection of rue Saint-Honoré and rue de Rivoli, this address adds to an exceptional cultural concentration, with the Bourse de Commerce, the Louvre, the museum Decorative Arts, the Orangerie Museum, the Jeu de Paume just a few meters away. Although the building retains its Haussmann façade, listed as a Historic Monument, its interior surface has been completely remodeled.
3D view of the future spaces of the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Place du Palais-Royal, Paris. Rendering of the view from the hall with all platforms at -1.
Surrounded by large bay windows extending along its facades, this new place spread over three floors will have a total of 8,500 square meters accessible to the public: 6,500 square meters of exhibition areas, including 1,200 square meters on five mobile platforms which modify exhibition areas and routes within the building, allowing verticalities of up to 11 meters in height to be created. It will also include 1,200 square meters of passageways open to the volumes created by the platforms.
View of the future spaces of the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Place du Palais-Royal, Paris. Rendering of platform 1 overlooking the Place du Palais-Royal.
