A Walk Through The Louvre’s New Islamic Art Wing

“Now the museum is again risking the public’s wrath as it introduces the most radical architectural intervention since [I.M. Pei’s] pyramid in 1989. Designed to house new galleries for Islamic art, it consists of ground- and lower-ground-level interior spaces topped by a golden, undulating roof that seems to float within the neo-Classical Visconti Courtyard in the middle of the Louvre’s south wing.”