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The same year the Louvre Pyramid opened, Pei included large glass pyramids on the roofs of the IBM Somers Office Complex he designed in Westchester County, New York. [23] Pei returned again to the glass pyramid concept at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, opened in 1995. [23]
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.
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners The IBM Somers Office Complex is a complex of five office buildings formerly owned and occupied by IBM in Somers , New York , United States . [ 2 ] Situated on a 730-acre (3.0 km 2 ) campus, the I. M. Pei -designed, glass pyramid-topped structures formerly housed the regional headquarters for the IBM corporation.
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.
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 ...
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 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).
Pei decided that a pyramid was "most compatible" with the other structures at the Louvre, complementing their roofs' faceted planes. [ 117 ] Soon, however, Pei and his team won the support of several key cultural icons, including the conductor Pierre Boulez and Claude Pompidou , widow of former French President Georges Pompidou , after whom the ...