Jean Nouvel Talks About His New Abu Dhabi Louvre
(ArtsJournal Theatre)

The building is a giant dome that lets some light through. When tests were carried out in Stuttgart, Germany, and on a scale mock-up in Abu Dhabi, Nouvel found that even the 5 per cent of sunlight he intended to allow through was too much. In the finished museum, `Only 1.8 per cent of light […]