Architecture: Jean Nouvel

Musée du Quai Branly / Paris, France (2006)
37, quai Branly - portail Debilly

The museum of the Quai Branly Arts and Civilisations of Africa, of Asia, of Oceania and Americas, drawn by Jean Nouvel, fleet like a majestic ship on the garden drawn by Gilles Clement. He presents himself with a set of multicoloured boxes on a wood lattice separated of the Quai Branly by a high glazed wall. He connects himself to the existing frame on the quay with a vertical garden due to Patrick Blanc and on the street of the University with a building whose design for the various ceilings comes to touch the rough concrete from the frontage.
Nicknamed MKB, the museum of the Quai Branly was is designed to reflect cultural diversity. It is "the sign and the symbol of a France that knows and recognises the cultures of the world and the need for dialog ue between those cultures", Chirac emphasised.