The redesign of the Louvre Museum has been entrusted to two architectural firms.

"The project submitted by STUDIOS Architecture Paris and Selldorf Architects was selected for the quality of its architectural proposal and its integration into the heritage, urban and landscape, fully integrating the issues of quality of reception of the public, clarity of pathways, sobriety and greening, all with a relevant consideration of the issues of security," the ministry stated in a press release.

STUDIOS Architecture Paris, the French agency of an international collective founded in 1985, participated in the design of the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris and the LUMA Foundation in Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), known for its stainless steel tower, two buildings designed by Frank Gehry.

Selldorf Architects, for its part, is a firm founded in New York in 1988 by the German architect Annabelle Selldorf, renowned for her projects such as The Frick Collection in New York and the National Gallery in London. She will also be responsible for the scenography and museography of the Louvre construction site.

This partnership is complemented by BASE Landscape Architecture, a French agency in charge of the landscape and urban planning aspects of the project.

These winners were chosen by a jury from among five selected groups.

"A period of consultation" will begin "in the coming months," the ministry also indicated, without giving a start date for the work.

Estimated at 660 million euros, the redevelopment of the East wing of the museum is one of the components of the "Louvre New Renaissance" project announced in January 2025 by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, which also includes a renovation plan for the building.

It involves the creation of new access points to the world's most visited museum - approximately nine million visitors annually - via the eastern part (Great Colonnade), in addition to the main entrance via the Pyramid.

In total, the presidential project was assessed by the Court of Auditors at 1,15 billion euros.

Opposed by unions who denounce a pharaonic project far removed from priorities, it is supported by management who see it as a way to remedy the obsolescence of the museum's equipment, notably revealed by the spectacular burglary of October 19.