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4 unusual facts about Dominique Perrault


Architecture of Denmark

In 2007, they won a competition for the design of a new headquarters for Deutsche Bahn in Berlin ahead of firms such as Foster + Partners of the UK and Dominique Perrault of France.

City of Culture of Galicia

The entrants were Ricardo Bofill, Manuel Gallego Jorreto, Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer, Steven Holl, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault, Cesar Portela, Santiago Calatrava, who later withdrew his proposal, and Eisenman, whose proposal was selected for both conceptual uniqueness and exceptional harmony with the place.

Frédéric Flamand

As director and choreographer Frédéric Flamand worked with many architects including Fabrizio Plessi, and later Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel, Thom Mayne and more recently Dominique Perrault and the Campana brothers, seeking primarily to connect the body of the moving dancer to the surrounding architecture.

Velodrom

The building was designed by French architect Dominique Perrault who won an international design competition in 1992.


El Poblenou

Notable buildings of Poblenou include the Torre Agbar (Jean Nouvel), Herzog & de Meuron's Forum Building (which houses Europe's largest scale model of a city), and the ME Barcelona Hotel (former Habitat Sky Hotel) (Dominique Perrault).


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