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摘要

Emanating an ethereal aura, the five softly shimmering rectangular structures of the Louvre Lens merge with the landscape and sky of Northern France. The incredibly light and delicate structures, created in 2012 by the founders of SANAA, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, for this outpost of the Paris museum in the Pas-de-Calais, do not aim to achieve any kind of sculptural self-representation. The sense of dematerialisation continues inside the Galerie du Temps, with no apparent supports disrupting a length of 120 metres (390 feet). Although the architecture seems to be very simple with an absolute reduction of all visible details, it involved complex constructions and intricate planning processes. While the entire world is talking about SANAA'S great achievement reflected by this architectural favourite, it is less known that the planning of detailing was carried out by Bollinger Grohmann Ingenieure based in Frankfurt.