TEC4701068: 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 1983-2001. 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. Here, view of the Richelieu Pavilion, courtyard Napoleon, taken from the inside of the pyramid. Detail on the steel mesh of the pyramid with 603 diamonds and 70 triangles of glass and aluminum., Pei, Ieoh Ming (1917-2019) & Macary, Michel (b.1936) & Wilmotte, Jean-Michel (b.1948) / Bridgeman Images
TEC4701128: The Louvre Museum (Grand Louvre), Rue de Rivoli and Quai des Tuileries, Paris 75001. Architecture of Leoh Ming Pei in association with Michel Macary and Jean-Michel Wilmotte, between 1983-2001. 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. View of the reception areas of the Napoleon hall in the Louvre Pyramid with signage designed by Kenneth Carbone., Pei, Ieoh Ming (1917-2019) & Macary, Michel (b.1936) & Wilmotte, Jean-Michel (b.1948) / Bridgeman Images