Inside the Louvre museum pyramid, Paris
Posted: February 11th, 2010 | Author: 3z | Filed under: Arounder.com, ArounderTouch | Tags: france, louvre, main entrance, museum, panorama, paris, pyramid, vr | No Comments yet, your thoughts are welcome »Commissioned by then President of France François Mitterrand in 1984, it was designed by the architect I. M. Pei, who is responsible for the design of the Miho Museum in Japan among others. The structure, which was constructed entirely with glass segments, reaches a height of 20.6 meters; its square base has sides of 35 meters. It consists of 603 rhombus-shaped and 70 triangular glass segments.
Louvre pyramid by night
The Louvre pyramid and the underground lobby beneath it were created because of a series of problems with the Louvre’s original main entrance, which could no longer handle an enormous number of visitors on an everyday basis. Visitors entering through the pyramid descend into the spacious lobby then re-ascend into the main Louvre buildings. Several other museums have duplicated this concept, most notably the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
More panoramas of the Louvre can be found in Arounder Paris.
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