THE CANAL+ HEADQUARTERS

Richard Meier and Partners create in1992 The Canal+ headquarters in Paris. This is a commercial purpose of Meier's method of all-white paneling, all-white detailing and glass. The result is an attractive commercial building. The side fronting the Seine and at the southern end the building is only five stories while the rest is eight stories. So enjoy the vue.

LOUVRE 2

In 1981 Ieoh Ming Pei created a new reception area and modernized entrance to the Museum with the addition of a 21-metre glass pyramid entrance.
I love that pyramid which sits at the center of the Louvre’s plaza and I think that the project has to be appreciated for what it has accomplished.

LOUVRE 1

The Louvre Museum is the largest national museum of france . The museum constructed around 1200 as a fortress and rebuilt in the mid-16th century for use as a royal palace, began its career as a public museum in 1793. The museum opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings. Because of structural problems with the building, the museum was closed in 1796 until 1801.

THE AMERICAN CENTER

The American Center builds by Frank Gehry in the mid 1980’s. The center is an interesting piece; which presents a geometrically challenging building in Paris, France. The architecture of the building is difficult to understand. The American Center’s geometry seems undetermined sometimes masterful, other times awkward and circumstantial. Parts of this include a great effort to square irregular geometry with ordinary office space. Part illustrates the intermediate step in the development of a workable process to translate irregular designs into material existence.

THE NEW FRENCH NATIONAL LIBRARY

The Bibliotheque Nationale de France, was the last of François Mitterand's "grand projects". Construction of the Library began at the end of 1990 and was completed in March 1995, at the cost of 8 billion francs (5.2 billion euros).
Designed by Dominique Perrault and covering 7.5 hectares it is composed of four glass and steel towers of 24 stories, 80 meters, each, modeled to give the impression of open books.

The towers of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France are named. They are the tower of Laws, of Letters, of Numbers and of Time.