| Creator |
Pei, Ieoh Ming -- Architect -- Asian American -- Male; Jacobson, Leonard -- Architect -- American -- Male; Weymouth, Yann -- Architect -- American -- Male; Pei, C. C. -- Architect -- Asian American -- Male; Pei Cobb Freed & Partners' Services -- Architects -- American |
| Title |
La Pyramide du Grand Louvre (Glass Entrance to the Louvre) |
| Spatial Coverage |
Paris, Ile-de-France, France |
| Latitude |
48.860854 |
| Longitude |
2.335812 |
| Description |
Exterior, spiral staircase from exterior. |
| Work Dates |
1983-93; 1989 Phase I completed, 1993 Phase II completed |
| Date Earliest |
1983 |
| Century |
20 |
| Style Period |
Post-1945; Late Modern |
| Culture |
French |
| Technique |
Truss structural system, Space frame structural system |
| Material |
Glass and Steel rods and cable |
| Subject |
Exhibition buildings -- Museums -- Art museums; Buildings -- Additions; Architectural elements -- Circulation elements -- Stairs -- Spiral stairs; Hydraulic structures -- Fountains; Site elements -- Landscaped-site elements -- Water features -- Reflecting pools |
| Image Source |
Grace Vlam. |
| Rights |
Digital image copyright 2012, Grace Vlam. All rights reserved. |
| Contributing Institution |
University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Special Collections and the School of Architecture |
| CA+P Accession No. |
P0305, S02 ARCH-31700 |
| Format |
image/jpeg |
| Type |
Image |
| Digitization Specifications |
Scanned with Nikon LS-4000 ED film scanner and saved as uncompressed TIFF. Color corrected manually in Photoshop CS and converted to JPEG. |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s60005h9 |
| Setname |
uu_cap_coa |
| ID |
91418 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60005h9 |
