The Louvre Pyramid (French: Pyramide du Louvre) is a large glass-and-metal structure designed by the Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei. The pyramid is in the main courtyard (Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre Palace in Paris, surrounded by three smaller pyramids.

Louvre Pyramid, pyramid that serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris. It was designed by architect I.M. Pei and completed in 1989. One of Pres. François Mitterrand’s grands projets (“great projects”), the Pyramid was part of a much-needed rationalization of France’s greatest museum.

2010年11月18日 · The monumental appearance of the glass and steel pyramid fixed in the middle of the court provides a central focal point that compliments the scale and design of the Louvre. Save this picture!

2017年4月19日 · Louvre Pyramid: The Folly that Became a Triumph Two architects who worked with I.M. Pei on the AIA's 2017 Twenty-Five Year Award-winning project recall the emergence of an icon.

Pei also found the pyramid shape best suited for stable transparency, and considered it "most compatible with the architecture of the Louvre, especially with the faceted planes of its roofs". [116] Biasini and Mitterrand liked the plans, but the scope of the renovation displeased Louvre administrator André Chabaud.

2024年3月12日 · The glass-and-metal structure designed by Chinese-born architect and founder of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, the late I.M. Pei, sits atop the Louvre's underground, yet light-filled, lobby connecting the museum's three pavilions — Denon, Richelieu and Sully.

2021年7月20日 · The Louvre Pyramid, which was designed by I. M. Pei and completed in 1988, is known and recognised around the world. However, it wasn’t always as universally loved as it is today.

In the centre of the Cour Napoléon stands the most visible product of the vast ‘Grand Louvre’ project that modernised the museum in the 1980s: the Louvre's Pyramid, an architectural feat that has come to symbolise the museum itself.

Louvre Pyramid architect redesigned the main court of the Louvre Pyramid with his firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, completing the project in 1989. The project is notable for its stainless steel pyramid and 71-feet-tall glass and supposedly rivals the Eiffel Tower as one of France’s most recognizable architectural icons .

The Louvre Pyramid (Pyramide du Louvre) is a large glass and metal pyramid, surrounded by three smaller pyramids, in the main courtyard (Cour Napoleon) of the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) in Paris.