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TEC4700993: The Louvre Museum (Grand Louvre), Rue de Rivoli and Quai des Tuileries, Paris 75001. Architecture of Ieoh Ming Pei in association with Michel Macary and Jean-Michel Wilmotte, between 1983 and 1989 and 2001. In 1981, Francois Mitterrand commissioned Ieoh Ming Pei to arrange the Grand Louvre. In particular, it was a matter of altering the spaces that Napoleon III had built for the ministries and which had been occupied by the Ministry of Finance at that time. In the foreground, the helicoidal staircase with the steel mesh of the pyramid in the courtyard Napoleon., Pei, Ieoh Ming (1917-2019) & Macary, Michel (b.1936) & Wilmotte, Jean-Michel (b.1948) / Bridgeman Images
TEC4703945: The staircase of the pyramid of the Louvre, Grand Louvre, Rue de Rivoli and quai des Tuileries, Paris 75001. Architecture of Ieoh Ming Pei in association with Michel Macary and Jean-Michel Wilmotte, 1983-2001. Helicoidal staircase of the Pyramid of the Louvre, Pei, Ieoh Ming (1917-2019) & Macary, Michel (b.1936) & Wilmotte, Jean-Michel (b.1948) / Bridgeman Images