According to a report by French daily Le Monde, translated in the New York Times, Louvre director Laurence des Cars has called for the new entrance to merge with the surrounding architecture, that being the seventeenth-century colonnade of the museum’s eastern façade, near the Seine River.
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News Desk,
Artforum,
1 July 2025
The living quarters center around a cloister courtyard that is lined with dramatic arched colonnades and adorned with a stone wishing well.
Or are Allende’s grandes alamedas still beckoning all these years later?
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Ariel Dorfman,
The New York Review of Books,
31 Aug. 2023
But what has resonated most, the words that adorn hundreds of monuments erected in plazas, streets, and playgrounds across the world, is his prophecy that someday the grandes alamedas, the great avenues lined with trees, would open for the free people of tomorrow to walk through.
—
Ariel Dorfman,
The New York Review of Books,
31 Aug. 2023
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