Apple Store aims for the Paris Louvre's glass pyramid

According to French financial daily La Tribune, Apple has received approval to build one of its eponymous stores in Paris. The location? Where else but under the glass pyramid in the Carrousel du Louvre.

It would mark the second piece of geometric glass architecture used by the Cupertino company, the first being the cube at the Apple's Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan, New York that first opened in May 2006.

The plans encompass a 715 square foot area under the pyramid formerly inhabited by two shops known as Résonances and Lalique.

The now-iconic Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, the scene of many a line-forming ceremony in recent days.

Completed in 1989 by modernist architect I.M. Pei, the glass and steel structure and is considered by many to be one of the great landmarks of Paris along with the Eiffel Tower. From the book "Conversations with I.M. Pei," the architect had this to say about his design, "'The glass pyramid is a symbol that defines the entry to the Louvre. it is placed precisely at the center of gravity of the three pavilions [and] assumes the function of a symbolic entry to a huge complex of meandering interconnected buildings which had no center."

Approval is only the first step and does not guarantee that an Apple Store will actually materialize under Pei's structure, but it makes one wonder about future Apple stores showing up in places like the Glass Cylinder memorial in Madrid, the Globus II shopping center in Kiev, or perhaps even in Germany's Reichstag.