Carré d'art
The Carré d'art at Nîmes in southern France houses a museum of contemporary art and the city's municipal library. Constructed of glass, concrete and steel, it faces the Maison carrée, a perfectly preserved Roman temple that dates from the very beginning of the 1st century AD. In 1984, twelve architects, including Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and César Pelli, were invited to submit proposals for the museum. A design by the British architect Norman Foster was selected, and the building was opened in May 1993.
Carré d'art
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- Carré d'art
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- 1993.
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- France.
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The Carré d'art at Nîmes in southern France houses a museum of contemporary art and the city's municipal library. Constructed of glass, concrete and steel, it faces the Maison carrée, a perfectly preserved Roman temple that dates from the very beginning of the 1st century AD. In 1984, twelve architects, including Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and César Pelli, were invited to submit proposals for the museum. A design by the British architect Norman Foster was selected, and the building was opened in May 1993.
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The building was constructed as part of a project to refurbish the square in which the Maison carrée stands, and provides a new setting for the ancient temple. The building is a nine-storey structure, half of which is sunk deep into the ground, keeping the building's profile low in sympathy with the scale of the surrounding buildings. The lower levels house archival storage and a cinema.
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• Name — Carré d'art • Established — 1993 • Location — Place de la Maison Carrée, Nîmes, Gard, France • Type — Art museum, Mediathque • Website — carreartmusee.com
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• Illustration — Exterior view of Carré d'Art • Illustration — Interior view of Carré d'Art
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1993
Carré d'art established.
1993
Carré d'art is recorded from 1993.
1999
Nîmes, Maison carrée nd Carré d'Art (N. Foster) digitised by DataCite (ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv).
2008
Carré d'art digitised by Open Library.
2013
Carré D'Art, Nîmes digitised by Open Library.
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Nîmes, Maison carrée nd Carré d'Art (N. Carré D'Art, Nîmes (2013) — Open Library
Carré d'art (2008) — Open Library
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- 1.Cees de Jong et Erik Mattie, Concours d'architecture, 2 : 1950 à nos jours, Cologne, Benedikt Taschen, 1994 , 207.
- 2.Article français auteur1=Évelyne Bret auteur2=Michel Étienne Carré d’art Bibliothèques – Nîmes Art et Métiers du Livre 303 juillet-août 2014 0758-413X lire en pages=20-33 .
- 3.Bibliothèque Carré d'art. Nîmes, Gard - Collections et catalogues, dans le catalogue collectif de France, mise à jour du 27 juillet 2010.
- 4.Site du webdocumentaire.
- 5.Charly-Sam Jallatte, « Éditorial », Annuaire des Bibliophiles nîmois, , 1998, p. 7-8.
- 6.BNF brut 377230100 .
- 7.Article auteur1=Stéphane Cerri Changement de direction à la tête des bibliothèques de Nîmes et au musée des Beaux-arts Midi libre 06-02-2024 lire en https://www.midilibre.fr/2024/02/06/changement-de-direction-a-la-tete-des-bibliotheques-de-nimes-et-au-musee-des-beaux-arts-11747591.php consulté le=10-02-2024 .
- 8.Guide des collections : Carré d'art musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes. RMN-Carré d'art. 2001. 2-7118-4095-6.
- 9."Un musée comme Carré d'art est courtisé par des galeries internationales" : rencontre avec Jean-Marc Prévost. midilibre.fr. 17-11-2024.
- 10.Info midi libre hélène audiffren, nouvelle directrice du musée carré d’art à nîmes. midilibre.fr. 06-03-2025.
- 11.Base Muséofile 3018906 .
- 12.Fréquentation des Musées de France. data.culture.gouv.fr.
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