The Fondation Louis Vuitton unfolds as a series of twelve massive glass sails, billowing out over the trees of the Jardin d’Acclimatation like a ship caught in a gust of wind. Frank Gehry designed the structure to hold Bernard Arnault’s extensive contemporary art collection, pushing engineers to invent new software just to calculate the stability of the curved glass panels. When the construction crew finished the final bolt, they had assembled nineteen thousand individual concrete panels beneath that intricate, light-filled skin.
Louis Vuitton Foundation
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