Travel by Design
Thursday, July 06, 2006
LOUVRE MUSEUM

In the foreground is the famous glass Pyramide, a new main entrance to the museum designed by the Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei. It celebrated its tenth birthday in 1999. The Pyramide generated a great deal of controversy before it was built, but it has now come to be accepted as part of the Louvre complex. I have to admit that I never expected it to fit in so well, but I like it now that it is there (but I like Pei’s work generally).













