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Inside pictures: a view of the Louvre Museum in Paris from the underground lobby of the pyramid. 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 ...
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A full-scale mock-up of the pyramid was erected in 1985 with the intent to persuade the project's critics that it would fit in its surroundings [4]. François Mitterrand unexpectedly announced his decision to remove the Finance Ministry from the Louvre and dedicate the entire building to museum use at the end of his first presidential press conference on 24 September 1981.
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.
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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).
Climate activists scaled the Louvre Museum Pyramid and threw orange paint over the iconic museum in Paris on Friday, 27 October. The footage shows the protestor on top of the Louvre Pyramid and ...