Pyramide du Louvre, France

Visitors of Louvre have a great opportunity to enter the Napoleon yard. There has placed an unusual and interesting construction – Pyramide du Louvre. For Paris, it became one of the main symbols of the city. The pyramid has begun to build in 1985 and finished in 1989. The idea to build this wonderful pyramid came to a famous architect Ieoh Ming Pei. Today this wonderful pyramid is the entrance to the museum.

Under the glass cupola has placed a spacious entrance hall with ticket offices, information boards and sitting areas. Right from this place you can enter the different units of the museum. The huge pyramid is surrounded with small pyramids that were put there for decoration. In a warm period of time near Louvre work fountains. At this period the glass building looks great. Faces of the pyramid are made from the glass places. Inside the construction has halogen bulbs that at night light the construction.

There were used more than 370 glass segments of diamond and triangular shape. The width of every segment is 21 mm. The inner decoration of the pyramid is very interesting. Behind the entrance door, the visitors can see the great spiral stairs that are the entrance to the spacious hall. The pyramid’s high is 21,6 meters, its faces have 52 degrees angle of slope. It is interesting that the prototype of the glass pyramid was the Great Pyramid of Cheops. But the modern pyramid weights more than 180 tones. Next - St Mary Axe