Joint WHY-BGC proposal selected by the Louvre for 2027 Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art expansion
The Louvre Museum’s recent undertaking to redesign space for its newly formed Department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art will be carried out by WHY Architecture and local French partner BGC following the results of an international juried competition.The project will yield slightly over 59,000 square feet divided into two upper and lower levels. The first being for the Louvre’s Byzantine collection and organized around an over 24,000-square-foot circulatory route connecting the ground floor and mezzanine of the museum's Denon wing; and the second, 'Roman route' presenting the Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities collection in one 35,500-square-foot space for the first time.Read the full post on Bustler
The Louvre Museum’s recent undertaking to redesign space for its newly formed Department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art will be carried out by WHY Architecture and local French partner BGC following the results of an international juried competition.
The project will yield slightly over 59,000 square feet divided into two upper and lower levels. The first being for the Louvre’s Byzantine collection and organized around an over 24,000-square-foot circulatory route connecting the ground floor and mezzanine of the museum's Denon wing; and the second, 'Roman route' presenting the Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities collection in one 35,500-square-foot space for the first time.
Read the full post on Bustler
