TEC4701295: La Cour Marly au Louvre in Paris Grand Louvre, Rue de Rivoli et quai des Tuileries, Paris 75001. Architecture of Leoh Ming Pei in association with Michel Macary and Jean-Michel Wilmotte, 1983-2001. In 1981, Francois Mitterrand commissioned Ieoh Ming Pei to arrange the Grand Louvre. In particular, it was a matter of altering the spaces that Napoleon III had built for the ministries and which had been occupied by the Ministry of Finance at that time. Here, Marly's yard of Richelieu Wing has the tomb of the night. It houses the monumental French sculpture that adorned the park of the Chateau de Marly., Pei, Ieoh Ming (1917-2019) & Macary, Michel (b.1936) & Wilmotte, Jean-Michel (b.1948) / Bridgeman Images
TEC4573200: Japan Bridge, walkway in front of the Pacific Tower, at La Defense (Hauts de Seine). Construction 1994, architect Kisho Kurokawa. The bridge crosses a network of seven lanes. Edifiee has about 50 metres above the level of the highways, it connects two office buildings to the Pacific Tower and the Kupka building built by Michel Andrault and Pierre Parat., Kurokawa, Kisho (1934-2007) / Bridgeman Images
MEP4786881: Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan, born Yvette Labrousse, was the fourth wife of Aga Khan III (he died in 1957). She is photographed in her house in Egypt ; she is showing the plan of a portal of the mausoleum she ordered to be built to commemorate her dead husband (last but one Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims) and where she places a red rose every day. She is the third woman to be named 'Mata Salamat' of the Islamic world. Assuan (Egypt), April 1960. (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MEP4784437: The South African heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard is sat down at a table in a hotel. He is having lunch after being awarded with the "Man of the Year" prize by the Union of South Africa, as he made the second heart transplant in the world. Lisbon, February 1968. (photo) / Bridgeman Images