TIRANA, Albania — Built in the 1980s to commemorate a dead tyrant in Pharaonic style, the concrete and glass pyramid in the center of Albania’s capital, Tirana, was falling apart by the time ...

A 62m pyramid stands in the Kazakh capital - and the architectural splendour reveals the scale of the country's economic ambitions, as Jonathan Fryer reports.

The Cairo Post reports on a new development called the Zayed Crystal Spark: A 656-foot-tall glass pyramid surrounded by a reflection pool and entered through a smaller, more squat pyramid at its base.

PARIS—Here in France, I. M. Pei, who died this week, is best known for one thing: The glass pyramid in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum. When it opened in 1989, two centuries after the French ...

PARIS—American presidents have libraries to preserve their legacy. The French prefer glass. François Mitterrand gave the ...

The pyramid’s steel frame is still sound and won’t be replaced, just the glass. Design Collective is the architect for the project and Plano-Coudon Construction is the lead contractor.

The museum used to hire mountaineers to scale the Pyramid and clean the glass. But this was not a long-term solution, and in the 1990s, the museum began using a crane and a cleaning machine.