Law Courts, Nantes FR

The RIVEN facing was chosen, in a shade in keeping with the building’s black theme. Black illustrates “strength, considered a virtue of Justice, which uses transparency in the form of large glass walls,” (Jean Nouvel). This external colour dominated by black was used by Jean Nouvel in a modern style associated with the classic shapes of the peristyle and columns of the institutional building.

Indeed, the RIVEN look of the CAREA^® facing is ideally suited to the central thread of this public project, namely the need for square, mineral, black facing. Moreover, the CAREA^® Mineral Composite facing is locally produced, manufactured 80 km north of Nantes in fact.