Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Musée d'Orsay
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Preferred Title:
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Musée d'Orsay
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Alternate Title:
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Gare d'Orsay
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Image View:
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Frontal view of open web bridge, north side
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Creator:
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ACT Architecture (French architectural firm, ca. 1982-present); Gaetana Aulenti (Italian interior designer, born 1927); Victor Alexandre Frédéric Laloux (French architect, 1850-1937)
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Location:
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site: Musée d'Orsay (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
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Location Note:
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62, rue de Lille
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GPS:
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+48.86-2.325
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Date:
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1898-1900 (creation); 1980-1986 (alteration)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Beaux-Arts; Postmodern
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Work Type 1:
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railroad station
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Work Type 2:
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art museum
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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glass; stone; cast iron; tile
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Measurements:
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32 x 40 x 138 m (length, Great Hall)
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Subjects:
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interiorengineering and industry; manufacturing; Art museums; Transportation; train station; coffered ceiling; arch; interior
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Description:
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The Gare d'Orsay was opened in 1900 (to coincide with the Exposition Universelle) but with cessation of rail service in 1939 to the station because of the short platforms, lay abandoned until it was transformed into an art gallery and re-opened as the Musée d'Orsay in 1986. [Parts of the building, including the hotel had remained in use until 1973.] The change from steam to non-polluting electric power traction inside allowed the original rail station to be designed in an opulent single integrated space which influenced later large railway stations in the US. ACT Architecture members: Renaud Bardon, Pierre Colboc and Jean-Paul Philippon. (Source: Musée d'Orsay [website]; http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Base Collection
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Identifier:
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1A1-AG-MO-D3
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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