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 multi-shaped Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died at ...

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The Chinese-American designer endured a roasting from ... Pei, who was once pilloried for plonking a glass pyramid into the courtyard of the Louvre, turns 100 Wednesday with his controversial ...

These attributes are visible in the Bank of China tower in Hong Kong, a tower of triangular trusses reaching skyward with an asymmetrical peak, and in the Louvre pyramid, which serves as an ...

As a student at MIT, while browsing the school’s library, he discovered the writings of Le Corbusier, a Swiss French architect and designer ... behind the Louvre’s glass pyramid appeared ...

On this day in 1793, the Louvre Museum opened in France. But what’s behind its infamous pyramid and does a darker symbol lurk? The Louvre Museum opened on 10 August 1793 with a modest collection ...

The entrance to the building—I. M. Pei’s Louvre Pyramid—was designed to accommodate just half of the visitors it currently does. To alleviate that issue, a new entrance will be created at ...

If I.M. Pei’s Louvre Pyramid was a shingled beach house in ... a fashion and costume designer. So when Mr. Rice’s friends encouraged him to ask for a tour, he barely hesitated before walking ...

His work should last hundreds of years longer. Pei, the Chinese-born American architect who designed the iconic glass pyramid entrance to the Louvre museum in Paris, died on Thursday. He was 102.

pp”The pyramid does not so much alter the Louvre as hover gently beside it, coexisting as if it came from another dimension,” wrote architecture critic Paul Goldberger./ppAs a young man ...