Dominique Perrault

Emblematic figure of French architecture, Dominique Perrault gained international recognition after having won the competition for the National French library in 1989 at the age of 36. This project marked the starting point of many other public and private commissions abroad, such as The Velodrome and Olympic swimming pool of Berlin in 1992, the extension of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg in 1996, the Olympic tennis centre in Madrid in 2002, the campus of EWHA’s University in Seoul in 2004. The most important ongoing projects include works as the Piazza Garibaldi in Naples, the Thermal Baths in San Pellegrino, Italy; the congress and exhibition hall of Leon in Spain, the Fukoku Tower in Osaka, Japan which will be completed in October 2010 and the Grand Theater in Albi and the Dobrée Museum in Nantes, France. Dominique Perrault has won in 2009 two great urban planning competitions: the new European district and city centre in the Bulgarian ....

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