Louvre Opens Contest For Its Redesign

Architects are preparing for nan opportunity of a lifetime. Following a unsmooth opening of nan summertime pinch overcrowding, overheating, and what resulted successful a full walkout and shutdown of nan world’s astir celebrated museum, nan Louvre successful Paris is making a large alteration … and asking for help. Weeks aft nan worker strike, nan Louvre has announced that it will big an architectural creation title for its caller desperately-needed description .

The description will spot a caller entranceway created adjacent to nan Seine River connected nan eastern-facing façade of nan structure, successful accordance pinch nan “Louvre New Renaissance” scheme announced by French president Emmanuel Macron successful January of this year. The title will situation architectural designers to incorporated nan caller entranceway into nan already-existing structure. This is to relieve congestion astatine nan museum’s main entrance, which astatine its existent 30,000 visitors a day, becomes unmanageable.

The Mona Lisa Takes Centre Stage

Arguably nan astir important alteration made will beryllium dedicating an full room to nan world’s astir celebrated painting, housed wrong nan Louvre – Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. The coating receives an overwhelming 20,000 visitors a day, and dedicating a sole room to it pinch timed, controlled entries would alleviate a batch of overcrowding concerns for nan museum. The existent scheme is to dedicate a 33,000 quadrate ft assemblage that connects to nan main depository conscionable for nan coating to beryllium built underground beneath nan Cour Carée, a courtyard of nan Louvre.

The other abstraction dedicated to nan Mona Lisa will besides springiness nan depository an opportunity to item its unthinkable and mysterious history, including its theft successful 1911 and its return to nan Louvre 2 years later, successful 1913.

The alteration will reportedly beryllium funded by a strategical summation successful summons prices and revenue. Visitors from countries extracurricular nan European Union will beryllium charged somewhat extra, and nan proceeds will spell to nan overhaul of nan museum’s design. In bid to alleviate nan overcrowding, nan Louvre depository now besides requires a preservation to beryllium made for everyone visiting nan depository beforehand.

Staff Strikes, Struggle, and a Stringent Summer

The summertime sewage disconnected connected nan incorrect ft for nan celebrated museum. Apart from nan aforementioned strike, nan Louvre besides has circulation and ventilation issues, a deficiency of bathrooms to accommodate each guests, a deficiency of nutrient options, a deficiency of unit to be to nan tens of thousands of regular visitors, and successful early May, aggravated hail and rainstorms caused h2o to leak done nan solid ceilings of nan structure, endangering nan maestro artworks within. The depository is poorly insulated, making it very acold successful nan wintertime and baking basking successful nan summer, and nan building itself amplifies noise, causing discomfort for anyone inside. Not only this, nan depository is only designed to accommodate immoderate 4 cardinal visitors a year, and presently receives much than doubly that astatine 9 cardinal visitors; much grounds that nan Louvre redesign and overhaul is not conscionable desired – it’s imperative.

But nan Louvre is not nan only celebrated French building suffering from nan sweltering summer: nan acme of nan Eiffel Tower, nan astir celebrated landmark successful Paris, was besides officially closed connected Tuesday, July 1, owed to utmost power that was warping nan puddled robust of nan building and causing it to grow successful size.