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    Selldorf Architects and Studios Architecture set to add subterranean entrances to Musée du Louvre

    New York studio Selldorf Architects and Paris-based Studios Architecture have won the competition to design the biggest renovation to the Musée du Louvre for 35 years. More about Selldorf Architects and Studios Architecture set to add subterranean entrances to Musée du Louvre

    Tom Ravenscroft | 19 May 2026 | Leave a comment
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    Musée du Louvre strikers call for €700 million renovation plans to be abandoned

    Staff members of the Musée du Louvre in Paris went on strike this week, demanding that plans to renovate and add a new entrance to the museum be scrapped in favor of building maintenance. More about Musée du Louvre strikers call for €700 million renovation plans to be abandoned

    Amy Peacock | 9 January 2026 | Leave a comment
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    "New grand entrance" to be added to Musée du Louvre in biggest renovation for 35 years

    French president Emmanuel Macron has announced a major renovation of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, which will add a second entrance and dedicated exhibition space for the Mona Lisa. More about "New grand entrance" to be added to Musée du Louvre in biggest renovation for 35 years

    Tom Ravenscroft | 30 January 2025 | Leave a comment
  • Red-painted workshop inside The Studio at the Louvre museum designed by h2o Architectes

    H2o Architectes converts storage space into colourful studio for Louvre museum

    French firm h2o Architectes has designed a brightly-hued educational facility, hosting art classes for young and old inside Paris's Musée du Louvre. More about H2o Architectes converts storage space into colourful studio for Louvre museum

    Natasha Levy | 13 February 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Virgil Abloh creates streetwear collection for the Musée du Louvre

    Virgil Abloh creates Off-White streetwear collection for the Musée du Louvre

    Prolific fashion designer Virgil Abloh has created a capsule collection in collaboration with Paris's Musée du Louvre that includes tee-shirts and hoodies decorated with paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. More about Virgil Abloh creates Off-White streetwear collection for the Musée du Louvre

    Alyn Griffiths | 29 December 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Centre de Conservation du Louvre by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

    Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners creates "fortress-like" archive for the Louvre

    Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has built the Centre de Conservation du Louvre in Liévin, northern France, to securely store 250,000 works of art from the museum's collection. More about Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners creates "fortress-like" archive for the Louvre

    Tom Ravenscroft | 7 November 2019 | Leave a comment
  • The Secret of the Great Pyramid by JR under construction at Musée du Louvre

    Watch JR construct a giant optical illusion around IM Pei's Louvre Pyramid

    This time-lapse movie shows the installation of street artist JR's paper trompe l'oeil at the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, France. More about Watch JR construct a giant optical illusion around IM Pei's Louvre Pyramid

    Lizzie Crook | 3 April 2019 | Leave a comment
  • The Secret of the Great Pyramid by JR at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France

    Optical illusion added to IM Pei's Louvre pyramid then immediately destroyed

    Artist JR has created a giant 3D optical illusion from paper that imagines the iconic pyramid at the Musée du Louvre in Paris continuing underground, but it has already been destroyed. More about Optical illusion added to IM Pei's Louvre pyramid then immediately destroyed

    Lizzie Crook | 2 April 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners begins work on Louvre art store in northern France

    Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has started building a new concrete-framed art storage facility in Lievin, France, for the Louvre museum, which will be covered by a large green roof. More about Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners begins work on Louvre art store in northern France

    India Block | 15 December 2017 | 1 comment
  • EarthCam Louvre Abu Dhabi Timelapse

    Timelapse reveals eight-year construction of Louvre Abu Dhabi in just three minutes

    A timelapse video from the webcam provider EarthCam reveals the intricate process of constructing the geometric dome of the new Jean Nouvel-designed Louvre Abu Dhabi. More about Timelapse reveals eight-year construction of Louvre Abu Dhabi in just three minutes

    India Block | 22 November 2017 | 4 comments
  • Jean Nouvel's completed Louvre Abu Dhabi is spanned by a huge geometric-patterned dome

    The first official photographs of the Jean Nouvel-designed Louvre Abu Dhabi have been released, ahead of the museum's public opening this weekend.  More about Jean Nouvel's completed Louvre Abu Dhabi is spanned by a huge geometric-patterned dome

    Jessica Mairs | 7 November 2017 | 21 comments
  • Centre Pompidou Atelier van Lieshout Domestokator

    Centre Pompidou presents Atelier van Lieshout sculpture that was too lewd for Louvre

    After being rejected by the Louvre, Atelier van Lieshout's controversial sculpture resembling a man penetrating an animal has been given a new public exhibition space, at Paris' Centre Pompidou – prompting one critic to describe it as "nasty public art". More about Centre Pompidou presents Atelier van Lieshout sculpture that was too lewd for Louvre

    India Block | 20 October 2017 | 11 comments
  • Louvre

    Louvre cancels Atelier Van Lieshout installation amid concerns over "explicit or sexual" content

    Artist Joep van Lieshout has slammed a last-minute decision made by the Musée du Louvre to cancel a display of his controversial Domestikator sculpture, which looks like a man penetrating a four-legged animal. More about Louvre cancels Atelier Van Lieshout installation amid concerns over "explicit or sexual" content

    India Block | 4 October 2017 | 12 comments
  • Louvre gallery by Jean Nouvel in Abu Dhabi

    New photographs show Jean Nouvel's Louvre Abu Dhabi approaching completion

    The huge metal dome topping French architect Jean Nouvel's Louvre Abu Dhabi has been captured in new images, which have emerged on Twitter ahead of the building's opening. More about New photographs show Jean Nouvel's Louvre Abu Dhabi approaching completion

    Eleanor Gibson | 30 August 2017 | 4 comments
  • Café Mollien at the Louvre by Mathieu Lehanneur

    Mathieu Lehanneur adds pink light fittings to interior of Louvre's Cafe Mollien

    French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has renovated a cafe inside the Louvre in Paris, adding modern pink acrylic light fixtures that contrast with their historical surrounds (+ slideshow). More about Mathieu Lehanneur adds pink light fittings to interior of Louvre's Cafe Mollien

    Alice Morby | 19 June 2016 | Leave a comment
  • Rogers Stirk Harbour to design conservation facility for Musée du Louvre

    A team headed up by British firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has been selected to design a new conservation and storage centre for the Musée du Louvre, housing 250,000 works of art. More about Rogers Stirk Harbour to design conservation facility for Musée du Louvre

    Amy Frearson | 7 July 2015 | 1 comment
  • Mutations exhibition design by FREAKS freearchitects

    FREAKS freearchitects masks ornate decor inside the Palais du Louvre for design exhibition

    Parisian studio FREAKS freearchitects has covered a series of elaborately decorated galleries inside the Palais du Louvre with shiny plastic for an exhibition that brings together historic and contemporary design (+ slideshow). More about FREAKS freearchitects masks ornate decor inside the Palais du Louvre for design exhibition

    Jessica Mairs | 9 May 2015 | 1 comment
  • Louvre Lens by SANAA and Imrey Culbert photographed by Julien Lanoo

    Slideshow feature: these images by French photographer Julien Lanoo document the opening week of the Louvre Lens, the Musée du Louvre's new sister gallery designed by Japanese architects SANAA and New York studio Imrey Culbert. More about Louvre Lens by SANAA and Imrey Culbert photographed by Julien Lanoo

    Amy Frearson | 17 December 2012 | 23 comments
  • Louvre Lens by Sanaa and Celia Imrey

    Louvre Lens by SANAA and Imrey Culbert

    The Louvre Lens, a new outpost of the Musée du Louvre by Japanese architects SANAA and New York studio Imrey Culbert, opens to the public next week in Lens, northern France (+ slideshow). More about Louvre Lens by SANAA and Imrey Culbert

    Amy Frearson | 4 December 2012 | 22 comments
  • Department of Islamic Arts at Musée du Louvre by Mario Bellini and Rudy Ricciotti

    An undulating golden plane blankets the new Islamic art galleries at the Musée du Louvre in Paris, which opened to the public this weekend (+ slideshow). More about Department of Islamic Arts at Musée du Louvre by Mario Bellini and Rudy Ricciotti

    Amy Frearson | 24 September 2012 | 15 comments
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