Photos: The Louis Vuitton Foundation building

The Louis Vuitton Foundation building, designed by Frank Gehry, is a ravishing new Paris museum for French billionaire Bernard Arnault with genuine humanism at its core. (Francois Mori / Associated Press)

Oct. 17, 2014 1 PM PT

The exterior of the Louis Vuitton Foundation building, designed by architect Frank Gehry.

The building is the latest reminder that Gehry is capable of making a strong case for the sculptural and iconic project, says Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne. (Francois Mori / Associated Press)

The design “is brilliant, a late-career triumph, whatever you make of the idea that the personal museum, once essentially domestic in scale, has now been inflated to meet the expectations of a new class of oligarchs and their high-paid art consultants,” critic Christopher Hawthorne says. (Francois Mori / Associated Press)

There are galleries on four levels. The ones on the upper floors are lighted by recessed or partially hidden skylights. (Francois Mori / Associated Press)

The site is near the northern end of the Bois de Boulogne park on the west side of Paris, faces Avenue Mahatma Gandhi and backs up to the Jardin d’Acclimatation, a children’s garden where Marcel Proust played as a child. (Francois Mori / Associated Press)