Fondation Louis Vuitton

Multilevel roof terraces for events and art installations.

"The uppermost of the building’s four magical terraces looks out over the vast green expanse of the Bois [large public park located along the western edge of the 16th arrondissement] and toward the city, from the barely visible tip of the Arc de Triomphe to the modern towers of the business district La Défense. - Leslie Camhi, Why Paris’s Newest Art Museum - the Fondation Louis Vuitton - Is Like None You’ve Ever Seen (online Dec. 2015)

Lili Rosboch, Touring the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, Frank Gehry’s New Temple to Art:
"Getting off the escalator on the second floor, you can access the panoramic terrace where you'll find Adrian Villar Rojas’s 2014 'Where the Slaves Live.' Like many of the works in the museum, the sculpture (in the shape of a large reservoir made of organic and mineral elements) was custom commissioned for the space."

Detail - Adrian Villar Rojas’s 2014 'Where the Slaves Live.'

Mayer Ru, Frank Gehry's Masterful Fondation Louis Vuitton Opens in Paris:
"The Fondation’s distinctive shell, which Gehry refers to as the Verrière, consists of a dozen of the monumental glass sail forms, all variously angled and overlapping. Underneath sits an assemblage of irregular volumes, known as the Iceberg, containing 11 galleries for art. The Iceberg is clad in luminous white panels of fiber-reinforced concrete, while the Verrière is held aloft by a network of steel trusses and wood beams in a bravura feat of architectural acrobatics. To observe city-mandated height restrictions, the architects excavated the site and erected the structure below grade, set within a reflecting pool that underscores its nautical air and suffuses the edifice with shimmering light. A terraced waterfall at one end adds a kinetic element."

Lili Rosboch, Touring the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, Frank Gehry’s New Temple to Art:
"The 126,000-square-foot complex is situated in the Jardin d’Acclimatation, a 19th-century children’s garden inaugurated in 1860 by Emperor Napoleon III and his wife, on the western edge of the 16th arrondissement." -

Modern towers of the business district La Défense.