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The Louvre Pyramid (French: Pyramide du Louvre) is a large glass-and-metal structure designed by the Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei. The pyramid is in the main courtyard (Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre Palace in Paris, surrounded by three smaller pyramids.
Louvre Pyramid, pyramid that serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris. It was designed by architect I.M. Pei and completed in 1989. One of Pres. François Mitterrand’s grands projets (“great projects”), the Pyramid was part of a much-needed rationalization of France’s greatest.
The Louvre glass pyramid in Paris is an intricate fusion of traditional and modern architecture. It stands at the core of the Cour Napoleon courtyard of the Louvre Museum. Just beneath the pyramid is the lobby that connects the museum's three pavilions - Denon, Richelieu, and Sully.
In the centre of the Cour Napoléon stands the most visible product of the vast ‘Grand Louvre’ project that modernised the museum in the 1980s: the Louvre's Pyramid, an architectural feat that has come to symbolise the museum itself.
The Louvre Pyramid, a striking glass and metal structure, stands prominently in the Cour Napoléon at the Louvre Palace in Paris. Completed in 1989 as part of the Grand Louvre project, this architectural masterpiece by Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei has become a symbol of the Louvre Museum itself.
Thirty years after it was unveiled, the Louvre Pyramid stands in front of the world's most visited museum, and despite its relative youth, it has become a vital part of Paris' renowned cityscape.
A modernized synonym to the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Louvre Pyramid situated in Paris, France has become a spectacle of the city’s architecture. This glass pyramid was designed and executed by the renowned Chinese-American architect I.M.Pei, the structure underwent a series of debates and disputes until it became the marvel that it is now.
The Louvre Pyramid, which was designed by I. M. Pei and completed in 1988, is known and recognised around the world. However, it wasn’t always as universally loved as it is today.
Home to an unmatched collection of priceless artworks, the Louvre’s most iconic feature is the Louvre Pyramid, a glass replication of the Great Pyramids of Giza that stands in the Cour Napoleon, or central courtyard of the Louvre.