Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The pyramid in the Cour Napoléon shown on a schematic of the Louvre. The Grand Louvre project was announced in 1981 by François Mitterrand, the President of France. In 1983 the Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei was selected as its architect. The pyramid structure was initially designed by Pei in late 1983 and presented to the public in ...
The centerpiece of the Grand Louvre is the Louvre Pyramid designed by Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei, which was also the project's most controversial component. The Grand Louvre was substantially completed in the late 1990s, even though its last elements were only finalized in the 2010s.
Most recently, as part of the Grand Louvre project designed by I. M. Pei, a cast made in lead in 1986 of the marble Equestrian statue of Louis XIV by Gian Lorenzo Bernini has been placed in the Cour Napoléon, in front of the Louvre Pyramid and marking the end of Paris's Axe historique. This was intended as a tribute to Bernini's past role as ...
The 70-foot-high glass-and-steel pyramid, designed by Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei, now aged 101, was controversial when it was inaugurated in the classical setting of the Louvre in March 1989.
This is a list of I. M. Pei projects. I. M. Pei (1917–2019) was a Chinese-American architect known for his creative use of modernist architecture in combination with natural elements and open spaces. During his decades of architectural work, he designed some of the world's most recognizable buildings in countries around the world.
A French newspaper described Pei's pyramids as "an annex to Disneyland" while an environmental group said they belonged in a desert. Pei said the Louvre was undoubtedly the most difficult job of ...
The opening of the Louvre Pyramid coincided with four other projects on which Pei had been working, prompting architecture critic Paul Goldberger to declare 1989 "the year of Pei" in The New York Times. [132]
The courtyard surrounding the Louvre Museum's pyramid in Paris will disappear this week as part of the celebrations of the iconic monument's 30th anniversary. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).