Tag:Louvre
You can’t miss I.M. Pei’s pyramid entrance to the Louvre museum. I think it works architecturally simply because it is so out of place with it’s surroundings. To have made any structure sympathetic with the surrounding wings of the museum would have resulted in something truly horrendous. The Pyramid works, in my view, but note that it’s often not the fastest way into the Louvre and on a sunny summer’s day the heat outside in the courtyard can be stifling […]
So I.M. Pei’s pyramid houses one entrance to the Louvre. You only have to join the line here once in your life to think that there has to be a better way in and there are.
I have to say, the Louvre pyramid has always been there for my visits – which means my first visit to the Louvre was after 1989. This photo was taken at about 11:00 pm on a Tuesday night in late July.
The courtyard of the Louvre where the famous I.M. Pei pyramids sit is officially the Cour Napoleon. Today’s photos were taken around 10:30 pm on a Tuesday night.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum was located in Cleveland ostensibly because DJ Alan Freed coined the term ‘Rock and Roll’ during his radio years with WJW-Radio in the city and because he helped organize the Moondog Coronation Ball on March 21, 1952 in the city, generally held as the first rock and roll concert.
