Louvre Pyramid

Courtesy of the Museum of Islamic Art 

 

The glass pyramid was the latest addition to the entrance of the Louvre, the world-famous museum in Paris, France. Standing 71 feet high, the steel construction supports 603 diamond-shaped and 70 triangular panes of 21 millimetre thick glass.

Completed in 1989, the pyramid allows light into the museum's reception center and is certainly the most famous of the 'Grands Projets'.