Frank Gehry designed a new contemporary art museum in Paris

Paris - Architect Frank Gehry and Bernard Arnault, the CEO of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, presented the project for a contemporary art museum that is to be built in Paris by 2010. The glass building, costing 100 million euros, will be located in the Bois de Boulogne in the western part of the city, with construction likely to start next year.
The project is financed by the Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation. According to its representative Arnault, the museum is intended to look "more like a cloud than a building," as the project's author wants to design the building as a maximally transparent object, where the exterior blends with the interior. "I found it inappropriate to build a solid, formal object in greenery," Gehry commented.
The gallery, featuring works by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Damien Hirst, or Jean Dubuffet, aims to attract not only with its collections but also with its architecture. It is expected to resemble another successful project by Frank Gehry - the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, which opened in 1997.
The 77-year-old architect Gehry is originally from Canada but has long lived and worked in the United States. He is well-known for his museum designs, and together with Vlad Milunić, he is the author of the project for the Dancing House in Prague. In 1989, he received the most prestigious international architectural award - the Pritzker Prize.