Louis Vuitton Foundation, by architect Frank Gehry, art museum and cultural center at Bois de Boulogne, Paris, France.
Upon Arnault's invitation, Frank Gehry visited the garden, and imagined an architecture inspired by the glass Grand Palais, and also by the structures of glass, such as the Palmarium, which was built for the Jardin d'Acclimation in 1893. The building site is designed after the founding principles of landscaped gardens 19th century. It connects the building with the Jardin d'Acclimatation at north, and the Bois de Boulogne to the south. The two-story structure has 11 galleries of different sizes (in total 41,441 square feet), a voluminous 350-seat auditorium on the lower-ground floor and multilevel roof terraces for events and art installations. Gehry had to build within the square footage and two-story volume of a bowling alley that previously stood on the site; anything higher had to be glass. The resulting glass building takes the form of a sailboat's sails inflated by the wind. These glass sails envelop the "iceberg", a series of shapes with white, flowery terraces.
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