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Louvre Inverted Glass Pyramid & Axis Majeur

Location
Cour Napoléon, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Coordinates
48.8606° N, 2.3376° E
Elevation
36 m
Optimal window
Night / Blue Hour (21:00 PM – 22:30 PM)
Sound field
741 Hz

Orientation

Designed by I.M. Pei in 1989 using 666 glass panes (according to popular lore) built to Golden Ratio proportions ($\Phi$). In the subterranean Carousel du Louvre sits the Inverted Pyramid (La Pyramide Inversée), whose downward-pointing glass apex hovers just millimeters above a small stone pyramid rising from the floor (As Above, So Below).

The full decipherment and its observational protocol — where to stand, when, and what to watch for — are in the Paris field codex.

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