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Cour Napoléon

Tour stop audio transcript

The Pyramid by I. M. Pei is a remarkable feat of technical prowess: 22 meters high, with 30 meter sides, it is made up of almost 800 glass lozenges and triangles, assembled with extraordinary precision on an aluminum framework supported by a 95-ton structure of girders and stainless steel joists.

The vast lobby beneath I. M. Pei's Pyramid centralizes and facilitates access to the museum. Approved in 1981 and opened in 1989, the rigorous geometry of its square ground plan and diagonals is punctuated by escalators leading to the public galleries, and by the spiral staircase descending from the Cour Napoléon.