The flying saucers have landed: Qatar's thrilling new supersized museum
It took 18 years to build, has nearly a mile of galleries and is inspired by a desert rose. But is Jean Nouvel’s eye-popping creation for the world’s wealthiest nation too extravagant to fill?
January 2019
2019 arts preview
Masters and machines: the best art and architecture of 2019
Van Gogh comes to London, Keith Haring scribbles over Liverpool, Jean Nouvel gets weird in Qatar, and the V&A hits top gear
July 2018
How landmark buildings became weapons in a new Gulf war
Across the Gulf region, states are vying with one another to create ever grander museums and towers
November 2017
Art Weekly newsletter
Ships in storms, a desert Louvre and the posters that shook the world – the week in art
Louvre Abu Dhabi: Jean Nouvel's spectacular palace of culture shimmers in the desert
May 2015
Jean Nouvel: 'Architecture is still an art, sometimes'
The eminent French architect is building an extension to MoMA which will be as tall as the Empire State building. He talks about philosophy, eroticism and the moral dilemmas of building in Abu Dhabi
March 2015
Jonathan Jones on art
Why the Louvre Abu Dhabi is worth celebrating, despite its dark side
The accusations of migrant worker exploitation have marred Jean Nouvel’s architectural masterpiece in the Middle East. Nonetheless, it is a turning point in cultural history
January 2015
Philharmonie de Paris: Jean Nouvel's €390m spaceship crash-lands in France
François Hollande opens Philharmonie concert hall – but without architect
September 2014
Hotel wars: the battle for Claridge's, the Connaught and the Berkeley
Paddy McKillen owns three of London's best-known hotels, and is fighting a bitter battle to keep them: the billionaire Barclay brothers are hot on his heels. The developer (and art collector) tells Jon Henley why the fight goes on
May 2014
Architecture and design blog
The Competition: a documentary that exposes how 'starchitects' really work
Sleepless nights for interns, tearful tantrums, and structures that resemble fossilised turds. A new documentary exposes the world of iconic architecture at its worst
May 2013
Architecture and design blog
Does Beijing's new People's Daily building remind you of anything?
Its state TV headquarters has been called the big underpants. Now China's official newspaper has a phallic tower to match
December 2011
Observer critics' review of 2011
The best architecture of 2011: Rowan Moore's choice
It was the year of pop-ups and postmodernism – and the playful Frank Gehry went sky high, writes Rowan Moore
October 2010
One New Change: never brown in town
It has been designed by Jean Nouvel – but the brown glass walls of this new London shopping centre jar with its City surroundings, writes Jonathan Glancey
August 2010
Justin McGuirk on design
Moscow's architectural heritage is crumbling under capitalism
The Serpentine gallery Sleepover celebrates the art of insomnia
July 2010
The new Serpentine pavilion is a rhapsody in red
Jean Nouvel's Serpentine gallery pavilion
Serpentine pavilion 2010: Jean Nouvel's aesthetic game
