London, New York and now Paris - Fresh from her work at the UK's National Gallery and Manhattan's Frick Collection, architect Annabelle Selldorf has been chosen to help transform the Louvre.
Her firm will work with STUDIOS Architecture Paris on the plan having beaten four other groups who submitted schemes to a jury including museum director Christophe Leribault.
Their win was announced today with a spokesperson saying their plan met the "challenges of visitor experience, clear pathways, simplicity, and greenery" while also "taking relevant security considerations into account".
The Paris museum has struggled for years under the weight of its own success with its around 9 million annual visitors often making for a difficult visitor experience.
Key aspects of the project, which could cost as much as $1.3 billion, include two new underground entrances and a "dedicated space for Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, allowing the public to discover and contemplate it in satisfactory conditions".