It is a strange sailing ship out that Frank Gehry book to the Louis Vuitton foundation. A building that is both open to the outside and protective, which naturally finds its place in the heart of the acclimatization garden.
Paris, City of Light, would it be on its way to becoming a City of Art? Between the reopening of the Picasso Museum and that of the currency of Paris, or the taking over of the foundation of the Galeries Lafayette by Rem Koolhaas, the opening of the Contemporary Art Center of Louis Vuitton was the place to be of the " autumn 2014. And rightly so! both spectacular and calm, the building unfolds a dozen stained-glass windows that conform to the curved shapes of steel hulls. From far and near, walkers contemplate the reflections and mirror effects of this ghostly ship: "in the image of a world that constantly changes, we wanted to design a building that evolves according to the time and the light, in order to create an ephemeral impression of continual change, "explains Frank Gehry.
If the construction seems to rise from the ground with lightness, it also relies on excavated soil, structuring a double level. One is open on a basin level, the other has a patio, where the public has access to a sublime installation of mirrors by Olafur Eliasson, the highlight of the walk. If the show is already outside thanks to the transparency of the glass roofs - the famous "icebergs", according to Frank Gehry's own term - inside, conversely, access to a panorama is ensured from terraces. In a principle of free circulation, serene, art lovers quietly travel the eleven exhibition galleries (an area of 3,800 square meters), spread out between the floors, from huge rooms to smaller, more intimate .