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Fondation Louis Vuitton

Frank Gehry, Paris, 2014

 

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Art museum and cultural center in the Bois de Boulogne park in the west of Paris

The building comprises an assemblage of white blocks clad in panels of fiber-reinforced concrete, surrounded by twelve immense glass sails supported by glulam wooden beams.

The ground-level entrance hall serves as the entry to both the museum and the garden and feature a restaurant and bookstore. The large, multi-purpose space directly adjacent to the entrance hall may be used as an auditorium accommodating 350 persons, an exhibition space, or event venue.

Visitors are able to climb exterior stairways underneath the glass sails to reach roof-top gardens and exhibitions. The structure of the glass roof allows the building to collect and reuse rain water and improves its geothermal power.

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  • Begun: Mar 2008
  • Completed: Oct 2014
  • Floor area: 11,700m2
  • Sector: Arts and culture
  • Address: 8 Avenue du Mahatma Gandhi, Paris, 75116 , France

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