i.m. pei was the architect who designed the glass pyramid in the courtyard of the louvre.
i.m. pei was the architect who designed the glass pyramid in the courtyard of the louvre.
what architect designed the glass pyramid in the courtyard of the louvre?
i.m. pei ,
after architects mario bellini and rudy ricciotti had won an international competition to create its new galleries for islamic art, the new 3,000 sq m pavilion eventually opened in 2012, consisting of ground- and lower-ground-level interior spaces topped by a golden, undulating roof (fashioned from almost 9,000 steel tubes that form an interior web) that seems to float within the neo-classical visconti courtyard in the middle of the louvre's south wing. the galleries, which the museum had initially hoped to open by 2009, represent the first major architectural intervention at the louvre since the addition of i.m. pei's glass pyramid in 1989.
louvre
section::::pyramide inversée.









































the pyramide inversée (inverted pyramid) is a skylight in the carrousel du louvre shopping mall in front of the louvre museum. it looks like an upside-down and smaller version of the louvre pyramid.









































section::::renovation.









































designed for a museum that attracted 4.5 million visitors a year, the pyramid proved inadequate by the time the louvre's attendance had doubled in 2014. between 2014 and 2017, the layout of the foyer area in the cour napoleon beneath the glass pyramid is undergoing a thorough redesign, including better access to the pyramid and the passage richelieu. 









































section::::pei's other glass pyramids.
louvre pyramid