The Paris museum has launched a competition to design a new entrance and underground exhibition spaces, including one ...

PARIS (AP) — The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, has withstood war, terror, and pandemic — but on Monday, it was brought to a halt by its own ...

The Glass Pyramid is a beautiful picture book biography that tells the inspiring true story of architect I. M. Pei and his bold, controversial redesign of the Louvre Museum in Paris.

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The pyramid, inaugurated in 1989, commissioned by then-President François Mitterrand and designed by architect I.M. Pei, is "structurally outdated," according to des Cars, having been designed to ...

The Louvre’s latest overhaul dates back to the 1980s, when the iconic glass pyramid was unveiled. Now, the museum is not up to international standards anymore. A look at what’s at stake: ...

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