Word: nouvel
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...Gaddafi is not perceived as a dictator in the Arab world." - French President Nicholas Sarkozy, defending Gaddafi's visit to France after the release of the Bulgarian medics. (Le Nouvel Observateur...
...ignore all the non-musical discussion surrounding Bruni and her CD while declaring it "a perfect success." Dicale praised the quality of Bruni's "dense and fragile voice," the same voice that disapproving critics have faulted as hoarse and weak. That was more or less how the leftist weekly Nouvel Observateur characterized the entire CD, saying it inspired "vague boredom" in listeners with songs about, "love stories that aren't our business." "Where does this irrepressibly banal sentiment come from?" asked Nouvel Obs reviewer Bernard Loupias after detailing the track list. Bruni's CD he says was hyped...
...Nouvel has also dressed at least one tall building in colors that tall buildings don't usually wear. His 2005 Torre Agbar in Barcelona is a cylindrical tower covered in a gridwork of painted metal panels. Windows turn up all around, seemingly at random. The entire tower is then surrounded by a membrane of fixed glass louvers fritted with ceramic dots that blur your view of the multicolored surface behind them...
...watery pixel field of color, blooms of orange, fuschia and reds near the base giving way to clouds of blue closer to the sky, with the occasional panel of yellow or red appearing wherever it may. At night a lighting system adds blue, yellow and white in varying combinations. Nouvel has called his building, which houses a local water company, "a fluid mass that bursts through the ground like a geyser under permanent, calculated pressure." That would be one way to look at it. As just about everyone has noticed, it's also more plainly a phallus than any tall...
...enters later life, Nouvel is also entering a period of maximum creativity. He's been commissioned to design an outpost of the Louvre in Abu Dhabi, a concert hall in Paris, and towers in Singapore, Milan, Kuala Lumpur, New York and Los Angeles. All of them are intricately imagined. And not one of them will look much like any of the others...