Read: France’s paradoxes, embodied in a cathedral The controversy over Pei’s Louvre pyramid brings ... Pei’s pyramid—at once solid and transparent, historic but timeless—shows that ...

When the Louvre’s new entrance – a glass ... Pei was adamant that the pyramid should be as transparent as possible. He spent a long time trying to find the most transparent and flattest ...

Pei was obsessed by light; his main challenge was to find the most transparent ... Yet, for more than a decade after the pyramid opened, the Louvre had no director, did not control its budget ...

The proposal of a transparent pyramid ran into controversy as soon as it was forwarded by the Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei. After all, the Louvre is a venerable French monument built ...

I.M. Pei (PAY), the versatile, globe-trotting architect who revived the Louvre with a giant glass pyramid and captured ... He topped it off with a transparent tent-like structure, which was ...

light and nearly transparent.” “The pyramid does not so much alter the Louvre as hover gently beside it, coexisting as if it came from another dimension,” wrote architecture critic Paul ...

The proposal of a transparent pyramid ran into controversy as soon as it was forwarded by the Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei. After all, the Louvre is a venerable French monument built ...

I.M. Pei, the versatile, globe-trotting architect who revived the Louvre with a giant glass pyramid and captured ... He topped it off with a transparent tent-like structure, which was “open ...

I.M. Pei, the versatile, globe-trotting architect who revived the Louvre with a giant glass pyramid and captured ... He topped it off with a transparent tent-like structure, which was "open ...

But Mitterrand and his supporters prevailed and the pyramid was finished in 1989. It serves as the Louvre’s entrance ... He topped it off with a transparent tent-like structure, which was ...