The Carré d'art at Nîmes in southern France houses a museum of contemporary art and the city's library. The building was designed by the British architect Norman Foster and inaugurated in May 1993. 
Constructed of glass, concrete and steel, it faces the Maison Carrée, a perfectly preserved Roman temple that dates from the first century AD.
The building is a nine storey structure, half of which is sunk deep into the ground, keeping the building's profile low in sympathy with the scale of the surrrounding buildings. The lower levels house archive storage and a cinema.
The building was constructed as part of a project to refurbish the square in which the Maison Carrée stands, and provide a new setting for the ancient temple.
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