Visitors may have passed through the Louvre's glass pyramid with valid tickets—but, prosecutors say, many of those tickets were being swiped again and again. French authorities have charged nine ...
The Louvre museum has been hit by a $12 million (Rs 107.3 crore) ticket fraud scheme. The scamming network, involving the museum employees and tour guides, had been running for over a decade. Here’s h ...
STORY: About a dozen protesters of "Derniere Renovation" (Final Renovation) threw balloons filled with paint on the iconic glass-and-metal structure, while another scaled it and doused it with paint.
NEW YORK (AP) — I.M. Pei (PAY), the versatile, globe-trotting architect who revived the Louvre with a giant glass pyramid and captured the spirit of rebellion at the multi-shaped Rock and Roll Hall of ...
The Chinese-American designer endured a roasting from critics before the giant glass structure opened in 1989, with up to 90 percent of Parisians said to be against the project at one point. "I ...
Glass architecture has drastically changed the face of modern cities. From being regarded as weak or purely aesthetic, glass ...
PARIS (CN) — On Monday morning at the Louvre — the world’s most visited museum — velvet ropes blocked off the glass pyramid that usually leads roughly 30,000 people a day into its walls. Workers ...
In this March 29, 1989, file photo, Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei laughs while posing for a portrait in front of the Louvre glass pyramid, which he designed, in the museum’s Napoleon Courtyard, ...
NEW YORK -- I.M. Pei, the versatile, globe-trotting architect who revived the Louvre with a giant glass pyramid and captured the spirit of rebellion at the multi-shaped Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has ...