Nouvelle Renaissance project

Visitors outside the Louvre in Paris, representing museum expansion, crowd flow and infrastructure pressure at a major cultural institution.

Field Notes

The Louvre’s Renewal Begins With Managing Arrival

With STUDIOS Architecture Paris and Selldorf Architects selected for the Louvre’s Nouvelle Renaissance project, the museum is trying to turn a year of institutional strain into a new public approach: entrances, routes, visitor flow and a separate path for the Mona Lisa.