Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France

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Centre Pompidou-Metz
Designer Shigeru Ban Architects, Tokyo, Japan
Location Metz, France
Date 2003 to 2010
Building Type Museum
Construction System laminated timbers, Teflon-coated fibreglass tensile fabric, concrete, steel, glass, polycarbonate sheets
Climate Mild Temperate
Context Small Town or City
Architectural Style Expressionist Modern
Builder Demathieu & Bard, Metz, France
Street Address
Notes Irregularly curved fabric roof supported by a computer-designed composite-member wood structural lattice. Designed in association with Jean de Gastines Architecte DPLG, Paris, France. Gumuchdjian Architects, London, England, United Kingdom also collaborated on the competition entry.

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Building Details
Client Centre Pompidou
Cost 51 Million Euro
Area 11,330 square meters
Stories 4
Height 77 meters
Site 12,000 square meters
Other Details canopy area is 8,000 square meters (86,000 square feet)


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Cecil Balmond
  • Structural Engineering — Design and Site Administration
Paul Nuttall, Sophie Le Bourva, Ben Lewis, David Gration, Andrew Lawrence, Holger Falter, Mathieu Jacques de Dixmude, James McLean
    • Engineer, 2nd phase: Terrell, Paris– Zbigniew Koszut, Laurence Dallot
    • Structural Engineer, Timber Roof: Hermann Blumer, Waldstatt (Switzerland)
  • MEP Engineer: Ove Arup, London
Emmanuelle Danisi, Florence Collier, James Whelan, Chris Moore
  • MEP Engineer: Gec Ingénierie, Paris
Philippe Vivier, René Andrian
  • Lighting: L'Observatoire 1, Paris – Geroges Berne, Anthony Perrot, Remy Cimadevilla
  • Lighting: Icon, Paris - Akari-Lisa Ishii
  • Quantity surveyor : J.P Tohier & Associés, Paris – Eric Le Dreo, Gerald Lamory
  • Acoustics : Commins Acoustics workshop, Paris – Daniel Commins
  • Security consultant : Cabinet Casso & Cie, Paris - Michel Walkowiak
    • General contractor: Demathieu & Bard, Metz
  • Timber roof: Holzbau Amann, Weilheim-Bannholz (Germany)
Döbele Tobias, Martin Pfundt, Fredy Oberle, Klaus Tröndle, Peter Amann
  • Timber roof: SJB (for structural analysis)
Franz Tshuemperlin, Samuel Keller
  • Roof membrane: Taiyo Europe, Munich (Germany)
Koffi Alate, Peter Wright, Massimo Maffeis, Thomas Winkler



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