Jean Nouvel

Pritzker Prize for Architecture Jean Nouvel Winner
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Guthrie Theater
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2006.
The Guthrie Theater is set on a stretch of formerly industrial waterfront along the Mississippi. Nouvel used midnight blue steel on the exterior to link the building visually to the warehouses and dark metal silos that used to dominate the area.

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