Fondation Louis Vuitton Glass Facade, Paris

4 October 2017 · Paris

The curved glass sail of the Fondation Louis Vuitton rises from low angle, its horizontal glazing bands pulling the eye upward in a strong diagonal. Frank Gehry's deconstructivist geometry doesn't compete with the mackerel sky — it mirrors it. The altocumulus clouds and the layered glass panels share the same rhythm, a structural echo that only appears at this angle and this light. The building reflects the Bois de Boulogne's tree line in its lower panels, grounding the whole composition back into the landscape it sits within.