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Dezember 2012 der Öffentlichkeit übergeben. [7]) Some Lens locals were critical of the project; they felt that the project to bring culture to their city was "patronizing". Different zones were created making it possible to conserve the remarkable plant species, such as milk vetch with its liquorice leaves, a protected plant that is very rare in northern France, and hoary mullein. The Louvre-Lens was one of France’s biggest developments in 2012 and opened in December of that year after an international competition won by New York-based Imrey Culbert, Tokyo-based Pritzker Prize-awardee SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa), and French landscape architects Mosbach Paysagistes in 2006. 1150–1200), A fragment of a chapel of the Saint-Sepulcre in Chaumont-en-Bassigny (1475), James of the Marches by Carlo Crivelli (1477), Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione by Raphael (ca. You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Their design avoids both strict rectilinear forms, which would have clashed with the site’s fragile beauty, and forms that are too free, which would have been restrictive when it came to organising the interior of the museum. Created with Sketch. French photographer Julien Lanoo has shared with us a first look at the Musée du Louvre’s new sister gallery: Louvre Lens. The Louvre-Lens was built on a 20-hectare site that was occupied by the 9 and 9 bis mine shafts. Inside the large agora covering 2,300 m2 float glass bubbles that create more intimate zones, although they are closely connected to the rest of the museum: picnic area, media library, bookshop and gift shop and cafeteria. Transparent und anti-hierarchisch: Architektur, Kunst und Landschaft greifen im Louvre Lens sehr selbstverständlich und unaufgeregt ineinander und öffnen den Blick für neue Ideen.

Der Louvre-Lens ist ein Kunstmuseum in der nordfranzösischen Stadt Lens im Département Pas-de-Calais. Natural light is controlled by means of a concealment device in the roof and interior shades forming the ceiling. My task was to create the opposite effect, so that the park opens its arms to the outside. It emerges gradually as you approach it through the surrounding park. 2000 BC)[19], A fragment of an architectural frieze from Raqqa with a Koranic inscription in angular Arabic (1100-1200), A group of ushabti from the tomb of Neferibreheb in Memphis, Egypt (ca. The museum absorbs and recomposes the surrounding park, creating a continuity between architecture and landscape. An integral part of the museum’s identity, the park helps turn a trip to the museum into an ecological and sensory experience. Two independent buildings house the administrative services, to the South, and a restaurant, to the North, thus establishing a link between the museum, the park and the city. Lion with a Snake by Antoine-Louis Barye (1832, cast by Honoré Gonon in 1835), Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans by Jean-Louis Jaley (1844), Art museum, Design/Textile Museum, Historic site in Lens, France, Prix d'architecture de l'Equerre d'Argent, Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, "Integrative Transparency: Louvre-Lens by SANAA and Tim Culbert", "New Louvre museum in Lens, France, aims to revitalize mining town", "41 French Coal Miners Killed by Explosion and Fire", "Louvre comes to poor French city, raising eyebrows", "With the Louvre-Lens, a Curtain Call for the Bilbao Effect", "Équerre d'Argent 2013 / Lauréat - Sanaa - Le Louvre-Lens", "Succès pour le Louvre-Lens, trois semaines après son inauguration", "Le Louvre-Lens a un an : déjà 900 000 visiteurs", "Woman scrawls 9/11 graffiti over Delacroix masterpiece in Louvre-Lens", "Royal head, known as the "Head of Hammurabi, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Louvre-Lens&oldid=963187839, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, SANAA Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa, Tokyo + Imrey Culbert, New York, This page was last edited on 18 June 2020, at 11:16.