Louvre-Lens art gallery: 'We're going to make it so you never hang anything on the walls'

Louvre-Lens art gallery: 'We're going to make it so you never hang anything on the walls'
Louvre-Lens, an outpost of Paris's great Louvre gallery, is the latest product of the trend for satellite museums from big-name art institutions. Costing €150m (£122m) and designed by Japanese architects Sanaa, it is expected to attract 500,000 visitors every year and to help revitalise the economy of Lens, a northern post-industrial town. Design critic Oliver Wainwright meets the architects, explores their creation -- and finds out why they erased all the gallery walls.

[@ronbakker4122]

I had a very different impression last week..
Once you navigate your way around confusing side streets and purpose built roads that lead you to a car park, which does not provide any further sign as to where the hell the bloody museum is. So if you are proficient in Fronglais, you might be able to ask someone who probably speaks ch'ti "Ou est le looouvre".

[@ronbakker4122]

I had a very different impression last week..
gns stop.
Once you navigate your way around confusing side streets and purpose built roads that lead you to a car park, which does not provide any further sign as to where the hell the bloody museum is. So if you are proficient in Fronglais, you might be able to ask someone who probably speaks ch'ti "Ou est le looouvre".

[@robertgiles9124]

Looks more like a marge for art. Didn't really have to reinvent the Wheel; the important stuff should be the art not the architect.

[@elizabethcoopersoutham6573]

fabulous !!!