Louvre Pyramid: How I. M. Pei Moved the Museum Entrance Underground
I. M. Pei solved the Louvre's visitor-flow problem by moving the entrance underground and using an extra-clear glass pyramid as its skylight.
Before the Pyramid, the Louvre's Cour Napoleon held a car park and two small gardens. I. M. Pei's answer to the museum's circulation problem was not another doorway in the palace walls, but a central underground lobby reached through a glass pyramid.
The facts in this episode come primarily from the Louvre's official account of the Grand Louvre project, including the two-year search for extra-clear Saint-Gobain glass, the 21-metre height, 2,000 square metres of glazing, 675 diamond panes, 118 triangular panes, 6,000 bars and girders, and 2,150 structural nodes: A pyramid for a symbol.
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