The Louvre Museum, Paris, France (photo)

The Louvre Museum (Grand Louvre), Rue de Rivoli and Quai des Tuileries, Paris 75001. Architecture of Leoh Ming Pei in association with Michel Macary and Jean-Michel Wilmotte, between 1983-2001. Cour Carree - Wing West created by Pierre Lescot with sculpures by Jean Goujon The Cour Carree is the birthplace of the Louvre, where Philippe Auguste built the fortress of Defense of Paris at the beginning of the 13th century. But after his demolition by Francois I, who judged it austere, the present stone of the Carree Court was laid in 1546 with the elevation of a hotel building to Renaissance architecture.