Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris — Frank Gehry Glass Facade

4 October 2017 · Paris

The Fondation Louis Vuitton pushes two ideas against each other at the entrance: the white fibre-cement panels read as solid mass, while the curved glass sail above dissolves it entirely. Frank Gehry's deconstructivist logic is most visible at the threshold — where the LV monogram in polished steel anchors the wall and the glass canopy bends away from it into open sky. Standing at street level in the Bois de Boulogne, the building refuses a single reading.