Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Is it a cloud? Is it a cocoon? Gehry's Paris museum unveiled


From a distance some thought it would look like an insect cocoon. Its creator described it as a cloud. Many wanted to know what would hold it up and a few worried about who would clean it and how.
But yesterday all agreed that the enormous €100m (£70m) glass museum the American architect Frank Gehry has designed for Paris was extraordinary.
The plans for the building, a mass of vast swirling and jutting glass panels unveiled yesterday, make the city's other controversial edifices - the Louvre pyramid and the Pompidou Centre - look almost staid by comparison.

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