Musée Du Louvre Lens, Lens, France. Architect: SANAA, 2012. The permanent collection hall with glazed roof panels and louvres.

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The Louvre Lens is a new outpost of the Musée du Louvre by Japanese architects SANAA and New York studio Imrey Culbert. It has its site between the town's two landmarks - the monumental slag heaps and the football stadium. The five main pavilions stretch over some 300m as a single story building with walls of glass and brushed aluminium that appear to be straight but actually feature subtle curves. The architects collaborated with landscape architect Catherine Mosbach to surround the buildings with gardens and pathways, while the museum's exhibition spaces were designed by Studio Adrien Gardère.

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