Known as the Crystal Palace, the glass and titanium structure lights up the Bois de Boulogne. Who better than Gehry to design a home for France’s greatest corporate collection? His last Paris commission was the American Center (now the Cinémathèque Française) in 1994, and now at 85 he continues to surpass himself, experimenting and reinterpreting his use of material and manipulation of space. Here he has designed 11 irregularly shaped galleries, walled in fiber-reinforced white concrete, known as the Iceberg. Draped over this functional space is the Verrière, a series of a dozen monumental glass sail forms acting as walls and roof. Gehry has been experimenting with curving and distorting glass for years, and here his expertise manifests itself in the absolute confidence of form; the building appears to be massive yet weightless, ready to sail away.
Fondation Louis Vuitton
Known as the Crystal Palace, the glass and titanium structure lights up the Bois de Boulogne. Who better than Gehry to design a home for France’s greatest corporate collection? His last Paris commission was the American Center (now the Cinémathèque Française) in 1994, and now at 85 he continues to surpass himself, experimenting and reinterpreting his use of material and manipulation of space. Here he has designed 11 irregularly shaped galleries, walled in fiber-reinforced white concrete, known as the Iceberg. Draped over this functional space is the Verrière, a series of a dozen monumental glass sail forms acting as walls and roof. Gehry has been experimenting with curving and distorting glass for years, and here his expertise manifests itself in the absolute confidence of form; the building appears to be massive yet weightless, ready to sail away.
Source : http://nationalfutur.com/architecture/fondation-louis-vuitton/5542/
and....
what is your point?
Looks like an overbuilt avant-guarde rain sieve.
Corporate narcissism and masturbation at its best. Gehry drops the same hunk of shit anywhere and everywhere...no sensitivity.
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