NOTE: I do not own rights to this photo, nor do I know the photographer. I would like to know! I will remove the photo if anyone can source it. I found it on the web in about 2004 and failed to note anything. I hope to take my own iPhoto of it in Fall 2010. -- JM
The Pei pyramid is 72' tall which means that its base must be 112' per side. The area of glass is about 20,700 sq ft.
There is a small extension of the base for the entrance doorways, I don't know how many, that is not included in the above.
The angle that the sides make with the ground is 52 degrees -- measured between the side and the ground, NOT along an egde - that would be around 42 dgrees.
There are two or three smaller pyramids positioned around the large one.
Pei also designed the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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