A clay model of the The Louvre, rendered in Rosé Pine red on a dark background
A site model of the The Louvre in its neighbourhood: the landmark in Rosé Pine red among grey buildings, with its water in blue

Beside it, its neighbourhood: buildings and water from OpenStreetMap, the ground from the map's terrain tiles.

Paris · France

The Louvre

21.6 metres · 71 feet

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Height
21.6 m71 ft
Completed
1989 (the pyramid)
By
I. M. Pei
Coordinates
48° 51′ 40″ N2° 20′ 09″ E · 48.8610, 2.3357

Pei’s glass pyramid and its three small ones in the Cour Napoléon, among the triangular pools, framed by the palace’s wings and pavilions under their steep roofs.

Modelled from simple shapes at roughly its true size, and rendered in clay. The map draws the rest the one way it draws everything: the ground under Paris, as contour lines coloured by height, with its water and its names.

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