Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners creates "fortress-like" archive for the Louvre

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has built the Centre de Conservation du Louvre in Liévin, northern France, to securely store 250,000 works of art from the museum's collection.
Located on a former car park for the nearby SANAA-designed Louvre-Lens, the building houses the Musée du Louvre's archive and conservation centres.
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners designed the triangular-shaped building, which contains 26,000 metres of shelving for art, as a "fortress for art"."The building w