wHY Architecture has been selected by Musée du Louvre for two major commissions at its historic Paris complex. The New York office will create scenography for the new Department of Byzantine and ...

I.M. Pei, the versatile, globe-trotting architect who revived the Louvre with a giant glass pyramid and captured the spirit of rebellion at the multishaped Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has died at ...

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Pei was the first foreign architect to work on the Louvre in its long history, and initially his designs were fiercely opposed. But in the end, the French – and everyone else – were won over.

Chinese-born architect Ieoh Ming Pei has died in New York aged 102. He was the mastermind behind works such as the once-controversial Louvre Pyramid in Paris and the landmark Bank of China tower ...

New York: I M Pei, the versatile, globetrotting architect who revived the Louvre with a giant glass pyramid and captured the spirit of rebellion at the multi-shaped Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...

Le Monde’s architecture critic at the time called the structure “a house of the dead” and said Pei was treating the courtyard of the Louvre “like an annex of Disneyland or bringing Luna ...

I.M. Pei, the globe-trotting architect who revived the Louvre museum in Paris with a giant glass pyramid and captured the spirit of rebellion at the multi-shaped Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the ...

The Louvre Museum in Paris has announced the American-French consortium WHY Architecture-BGC as the winner of an international competition for the exhibition design of the museum's ninth ...

naming it a pivotal moment in understanding how to enrich historic architecture with modern spirit. Perhaps former Louvre director Henri Loyette said it best: “When you ask the visitors ...

Pei was the first foreign architect to work on the Louvre in its long history, and initially his designs were fiercely opposed. But in the end, the French – and everyone else – were won over.