Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris — Frank Gehry Glass Sails

4 October 2017 · Paris

Fondation Louis Vuitton rises above the tree line at the edge of Bois de Boulogne, its billowing glass sail panels catching the autumn light at street level. Frank Gehry's deconstructivist structure reads less like a building than a vessel — twelve glass sails stacked and angled against a partly cloudy Paris sky. The street foreground holds it in place: lamp post, parked cars, a pedestrian moving along the pavement. Architecture as the subject, the city as the frame it sits inside.