articles/Fondation Cartier gives up island vision — theartnewspaper.com

Jean Nouvel’s design for the Ile Seguin site The Fondation Cartier, the Paris-based contemporary art foundation, has abandoned plans to relocate from its central Paris premises to the Ile Seguin, the island in the Seine that was formerly the home of a Renault car factory. In 2011, the president and founder of the Fondation Cartier, Alain Dominique Perrin, asked the French architect Jean Nouvel, to draw up preliminary plans for a new base on Ile Seguin. But Perrin tells The Art Newspaper that he has decided to enlarge the Fondation’s current premises in Boulevard Raspail, and will commission Nouvel to work on the expansion.

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