[Photo: Antoine Boureau/Hans Lucas/AFP/Getty Images] The Louvre currently has only one entrance—the iconic glass pyramid by architect I.M. Pei, opened in 1989. Overcrowding of the throughway in ...
When I visited the Louvre last November ... restless tourists took photos beside its iconic pyramid. Forty-five minutes later – an hour past our booked entry time – we descended on the ...
It welcomes almost 9 million visitors every year, with daily attendance capped at 30,000 people. The entrance to the building—I. M. Pei’s Louvre Pyramid—was designed to accommodate just half of the ...
The Louvre’s latest overhaul dates back to the 1980s, when the iconic glass pyramid was unveiled ... be created to expand the museum. A French top official said the cost of the renovation ...