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The Paris museum has launched a competition to design a new entrance and underground exhibition spaces, including one ...
A major international competition has been launched for the transformation of the Musée du Louvre in Paris [Deadline: 1 September 2025] ...
A major international competition has been launched for the €135.7 million transformation of the Musée du Louvre in Paris ...
Overcrowded Louvre Launches €270 Million Design ... The Musée du Louvre in Paris has kicked off an international ... though Unlike I.M. Pei’s iconic glass-and-steel pyramid, ...
The museum's director, Laurence des Cars, and the chief architect of France's historic monuments, François Chatillon, speak to Le Monde about the architectural competition to renovate the world's most ...
The Louvre's last major refresh, in the 1980s, added I.M. Pei's glass pyramid entrance and prepared the museum to accommodate 4 million visitors a year. Last year, ...
Creator of Louvre pyramid, reaches his century 25 April 2017 at 6:26. ... And the French daily Le Figaro, which had led the campaign against the "atrocious" design, ...
France on Friday started an architectural competition for the daunting task of expanding the Louvre in Paris, in a bid to ease overcrowding at the world’s biggest and most visited museum.
The Glass Pyramid: A Story of the Louvre Museum and Architect I.M. Pei Jeanne Walker Harvey, illus. by Khoa Le. Atheneum, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-6659-5333-7 ...
Paris' centuries-old Louvre Museum — home of da Vinci's iconic Mona Lisa — is getting an $800 million makeover, and American visitors will have to help pay for it.