Fondation Louis Vuitton — Timber, Glass and Steel Detail, Paris

4 October 2017 · Paris

A curved timber beam arcs through the steel frame of Frank Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton, pulling warm wood grain against the cold white of glass sail panels above. Shot from ground level looking straight up, the deconstructivist structure fills the frame — each material doing a different job, all of them visible at once. The building earns its close-up: it rewards the angle that the standard exterior shot skips past.