The "Fondation Louis Vuitton" includes permanent collections, tmporay exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. It also includes multi-disciplinary performances, the holding of meetings, debates and symposia, and the development of educational activities intended particulary for younger audiences.

The building revolutionises the use of glass to give life to his vision of a building that is light, luminois and in motion, designed to merge harmoniously with a late 19th century park. Moving away fromthe conventional approach to glass surfaces, he has developed a revolutionary way of fashioning this material that makes it possible to curve, in an individualised way and to the nearest millimetre, each of 3,600 panes in calling of the twelve glass sails that give the structure its volume.