Centre Pompidou-Metz / Shigeru Ban Architects

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Metz, France
  • Category: Museum
  • Competition Architects: Shigeru Ban Architects, Jean de Gastines Architectes, Gumuchdjian Architects, Jean de Gastines, Toshi Kubota, Hiroshi Maeda, Shigeru Ban, Nobutaka Hiraga, Mamiko Ishida, Asako Kimura, Anne Scheou
  • Design, Site Administration: Shigeru Ban Architects, Jean de Gastines Architectes, Shigeru Ban, Gerardo Perez, Marc Ferrand, Jacques Marie, Fayçal Tiaïba, Elsa Neufville, Vincent Laplante, Alessandro Boldrini, Hiromi Okada, Jeong Hoon Lee, Jae Whan Shin, Jonathan Thornhill, Rahim Danto Barry
  • Competition Structure Consultant: Cecil Balmond, Ove Arup & Partners
  • Design, Site Administration Structure Consultant: TERRELL, Zbigniew Koszut, Laurence Dallot, Paul Nuttall, Sophie Le Bourva, Ben Lewis, David Gration, Andrew Lawrence, Holger Falter, Mathieu Jacques de Dixmude, James McLean, Ove Arup & Partners
  • Structure For The Timber Roof: Hermann Blumer, Waldstatt (Switzerland)
  • Quantity Surveyor: J.P Tohier & Associés, Paris – Eric Le Dreo, Gerald Lamory
  • Security Consultant: Michel Walkowiak, Cabinet Casso & Cie
  • Timber Roof: Holzbau Amann, Weilheim-Bannholz, Döbele Tobias, Martin Pfundt, Fredy Oberle, Klaus Tröndle, Peter Amann
  • Roof Membrane: Koffi Alate, Peter Wright, Massimo Maffeis, Thomas Winkler, Taiyo Corporation
  • Site Area: 12 000 m²
  • Construction Cost: 51M€
  • Structure Timber Roof: Hermann Blumer, Waldstatt (Switzerland)
  • City: Metz
  • Country: France
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Text description provided by the architects. My first thoughts when beginning the design were two recent phenomena concerning art museums throughout the world today. The first trend, which has become widely known as the “Bilbao Effect”, was born from the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, designed by Frank O. Gehry and completed in 1998. The strategy was to create sculptural architecture in an internationally unknown city to draw tourism, and it was ultimately a success. But there is an opinion that this kind of architecture spoils its functionality by disregarding the concerns of artists and staff, to produce a personal monument resulting in poor conditions for displaying and viewing art.

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Cite: "Centre Pompidou-Metz / Shigeru Ban Architects" 25 Jan 2020. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/490141/centre-pompidou-metz-shigeru-ban-architects> ISSN 0719-8884

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