Outside of the largest museum in the world, the Louvre ... the late famed architect recounts how he came up with the style and the design. "We came up with this pyramid because of its shape ...

The sun-drenched atrium foyer is a nod to architect I.M. Pei’s Louvre Pyramid. Anthony Barcelo Resting beyond walls and a lengthy gated and hedge-lined driveway, atop a six-acre promontory ...

Narrator:In 1984 the Chinese born architect I. M. Pei was asked to rebuild the entrance to one of the world's largest museums the Louvre in Paris. Narrator:Influenced by the great pyramids in ...

They were composed of stone, steel and glass and, as with the Louvre, he often worked glass pyramids into his projects ... A lasting architecture has to have roots.” Other notable Pei projects ...