The 153 acre site selected for the Louvre-LENS is slightly higher than its surrounding. As a result, the design strategy calls ... and dissolve into the landscape rather than overpower it.

And so, the Louvre-Lens was born, with temporary exhibition ... "This floral sculpture connects our park-courtesy of landscape designer Catherine Mosbach-to Arcimboldo's Four Seasons (1563-73 ...

Above: photograph is by Iwan Baan SANAA and Imrey Culbert won a competition to design the museum back ... richness of its industrial past. The Louvre-Lens site is located on 20 hectares of ...

The 153 acre site selected for the Louvre-LENS is slightly higher than its surrounding. As a result, the design strategy calls for a series of five pavilions – low one-story structures that will grace ...

Louvre-Lens, a luminous outpost of the venerable Paris ... The architect SANAA teamed up with Imrey Culbert and then Adrien Gardère for exhibition design, and with Catherine Mosbach for landscape. The ...

A journey to the new Louvre, in Lens, northern France, requires one to travel through the landscape in which it is situated, known as the bassin minier (mining area). It is a 12 mile wide band running ...

Instead, you'll find the bare-breasted lady brandishing her flag in a former coal mining town near the Belgian border, at the new Louvre-Lens museum ... beat more than 120 firms for the commission to ...

The new branch of the Louvre couldn't be more different from the museum's iconic Paris home. The 300,000-square-foot building, in the city of Lens, France ... cloud" (amidst a mounded garden by Paris ...

The Louvre Lens ... gardens of the Louvre Lens. The building is a cool white concrete and glass structure, just one storey high so as not to dominate the landscape. Inside there are two ...

An exhibition at the Louvre-Lens in France examines centuries of ... Rosa Bonheur, painting a landscape while dressed in brown trousers and a blue smock. “Women wearing pants was an act ...