Philharmonie de Paris, Grande Salle

摘要

When lighting designer Herve Descottes began work on Jean Nouvel's concert hall, the Philharmonie de Paris, the project was well under construction, and the architect even had another designer's lighting scheme in hand. "Jean Nouvel was very uncomfortable with [the other scheme]," says Descottes, whose firm, L'Observatoire International, is based in New York. "He didn't think it would work." Descottes, who collaborated with Nouvel on projects in Asia as well as his Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, explains that the previous plan anchored the lighting to the ground and resulted in hot spots in mock-ups. Nouvel's brief to Descottes was to create instead a feeling of complete levitation. "The challenge was like jumping into quicksand to try to save a friend," says Descottes, laughing. "At the end, he was happy with it."