Paris - Palais du Louvre & pyramid - postcard

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  • Condition : Used
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  • ID# : 117280138
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  • Start : Fri 30 Aug 2013 00:35:46 (BST)
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    Postcard

  • Picture / Image:  Le palais de Louvre et la Pyramide
  • Publisher:  Leconte c.2000s
  • Postally used:  no
  • Stamp:  n/a
  • Postmark(s): n/a
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Image may be low res for illustrative purposes - if you need a higher definition image then please contact me and I may be able to send one.

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UK (incl. IOM, CI & BFPO): 99p

Europe: £1.60

Rest of world (inc. USA etc): £2.75

No additional charges for more than one postcard. You can buy as many postcards from me as you like and you will just pay the fee above once. (If buying postcards with other things such as books, please contact or wait for invoice before paying).

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Outside UK: PayPal ONLY (unless otherwise stated) please.   NO non-UK currency checks or money orders (sorry).

NOTE: All postcards are sent in brand new stiffened envelopes which I have bought for the task. These are specially made to protect postcards and you may be able to re-use them. In addition there are other costs to sending so the above charge is not just for the stamp!

I will give a full refund if you are not fully satisfied with the postcard.

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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The Louvre Pyramid (Pyramide du Louvre) is a large glass and metal pyramid, surrounded by three smaller pyramids, in the main courtyard (Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) in Paris. The large pyramid serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum. Completed in 1989,[1] it has become a landmark of the city of Paris.

Commissioned by the President of France François Mitterrand in 1984, it was designed by the architect I. M. Pei, who is responsible for the design of the Miho Museum in Japan and IBM Corporate Office Building in Purchase, New York, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland, and the National Gallery of Art (East Building) in Washington, D.C. among others. The structure, which was constructed entirely with glass segments, reaches a height of 20.6 metres (about 70 feet); its square base has sides of 35 metres (115 ft). It consists of 603 rhombus-shaped and 70 triangular glass segments.[2] The rigging holding the pyramid together was built by Navtec Rod Rigging of Littleton, MA under the direction of Ken King and his partner Mr. Eliason and the experienced design team of Navtec Rod Rigging. In 1989 TriPyramid Structures was formed to use Navtec Rod Rigging in architectural design and building. http://www.tripyramid.com/.

The pyramid structure was engineered by Nicolet Chartrand Knoll Ltd. of Montreal (Pyramid structure / Design Consultant) and Rice Francis Ritchie (also known as RFR) of Paris (Pyramid Structure / Construction Phase).[3]

The pyramid and the underground lobby beneath it were created because of a series of problems with the Louvre's original main entrance, which could no longer handle the enormous number of visitors on an everyday basis. Visitors entering through the pyramid descend into the spacious lobby then re-ascend into the main Louvre buildings.

For design historian Mark Pimlott, ""I.M. Pei’s plan distributes people effectively from the central concourse to myriad destinations within its vast subterranean network... the architectonic framework evokes, at gigantic scale, an ancient atrium of a Pompeiian villa; the treatment of the opening above, with its tracery of engineered castings and cables, evokes the atria of corporate office buildings; the busy movement of people from all directions suggests the concourses of rail termini or international airports.""[4]

Several other museums have duplicated this concept, most notably the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The Dolphin Centre, featuring a similar pyramid, was opened in April 1982, by Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester.[5] The construction work on the pyramid base and underground lobby was carried out by the Vinci construction company.[6]

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period=1945 - present

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Listing TypeGallery Listing
Listing ID#117280138
Start TimeFri 30 Aug 2013 00:35:46 (BST)
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