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centre pompidou, paris, france june 30 - october 4, 2004 http://www.cnac-gp.fr just a few months after the official announcement of the winning project, the paris exhibition presents the proposals of the six finalists in the architecture competition for construction of the metz centre pompidou. shigeru ban, tokyo & jean de gastines, paris and philip gumuchdjian of london, have won the design competition to build the new pompidou centre in the city of metz, 3 1/2 hours east of paris. commemorating the 30th anniversary of the opening of the pompidou centre in paris, the new facility is scheduled to open in 2007. --- the competition the pompidou center and the city of metz in eastern france announced the decision in january 2003, in agreement with the ministry for the arts, culture & communications, to set up the first decentralized branch of the ‘centre national d'art et de culture georges pompidou’ in metz. the building will be constructed in the ‘amphithéâtre’district, currently the focus of a wide-ranging development project; it will host exhibition halls, ateliers, conference rooms and administrative offices. the project will also permit future expansion with the addition of a mediateque. total area: 12,000 m2 for 6,000 square meters / exhibition space: 6,000 square meters. costs: ¤35 million --- short description of the winning project a large pavilion set within a new park, the museum consists of both permanent and temporary exhibition space. the centre's most interesting feature will be the roof - inspired by a woven bamboo chinese hat, a giant, hexagonal umbrella made of woven steel and plywood protected by a translucent lattice membrane on top will cover the entire complex. it protects the facades from the weather in winter and provides shade in the summer. 3 rectangular, climate-controlled, steel truss, cantilevered tubes, each measuring 100m long x 15m wide, will form the basis of the galleries for the permanent collections and will be sited so as to frame views of the city's historic monuments, such as its railway station and cathedral. the whole forum will be encased with movable glass shutters that can close off the forum from, or open it up to, the surrounding gardens. the scheme offers the curators a broad range of flexible spaces and lighting opportunities. the only windows will be each end of the galleries, thus emphasising the importance of the internal lighting. enormous curtains will reduce the natural light as required. the floor of the public forum is cooled and warmed using re-circulated ground water while the large forum space is cooled and warmed by re-circulating the tempered air of the gallery spaces. --- the design team includes the landscape architect michel desvigne, recipient of the medal of the french academy of architecture in 2000, who worked on the dallas centre for the performing arts foundation in 2003. arup engineers, which also worked on the original pompidou centre, will prepare the structural and services designs. ingo maurer from munich, germany will be the lighting designer, and DLE, france, the quantity surveyors. --- the jury chaired by jean-marie rausch, mayor of metz, the jury was composed of a college of elected officials of the community of agglomeration of metz métropole, of a college of qualified personalities, among which the president of the national center of art and culture george pompidou, bruno racine, and of a college of architects (richard rogers, ...) --- of a total of 153 candidates - the proposals of the six teams were thus classified: - 1st: project ‘mirò’ by shigeru ban, tokyo, japan & jean de gastines, paris, france & philip gumuchdjian, london, uk - 2nd: project ‘matisse’ by stéphane maupin and pascal cribier, paris, france - 3rd: project ‘léger’ by herzog & de meuron, basel, switzerland - 4th ( ex æquo): project ‘césar’ by foreign office architects (FOA), london, uk; project ‘ artaud’ by NOX architekten, rotterdam, nl and project ‘duchamp’ by dominique perrault, paris, france --- see the finalists’ projects herzog & de meuron, basel, switzerland stéphane maupin and pascal cribier, paris, france foreign office architects (FOA), london, uk NOX architekten, rotterdam, nl dominique perrault, paris, france --- shigeru ban is well-known in particular for the museum of paper in shizuoka and for having been one of the unselected finalists in the 2002 competition for the new world trade center in new york. other works include the japanese pavillion at the 2000 universal exhibition in hanover and the model for the temporary shelter for the high commission for refugees at the united nations. --- more on shigeru ban / designboom archive http://www.designboom.com/history/ban.html --- ------- monthly designboom newsletter ------- ------- ? 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