« Walking up through the front square and the gardens that link the downtown area and the Metz train station to the Centre Pompidou-Metz, visitors will discover a building in light and luminous tones, both powerful and graceful, inviting them to take shelter under its protective roof. We imagined an architecture that speaks of openness and well-being, a meeting of cultures, in an immediate sensory relationship with the environment. »
The Centre Pompidou-Metz will be a large hexagonal structure with three galleries running through the building. A central spire will reach up 77 metres, alluding to the 1977 opening date of the original Centre Pompidou. Viewed as a whole, the architecture evokes a vast marquee surrounded by a square and garden.
Inside the building, the general atmosphere will be light with a pale wood roof, white-painted walls and floors in pearl-grey polished concrete. The roof, the relation between the interior and exterior and the three exhibition galleries make up highly innovative architectural choices.
Remarkable space
The architecture of the Centre Pompidou-Metz has unusual characteristics: the remarkable size of its main nave and the variety of its exhibition spaces, with large open spaces and more intimate places that encourage inventiveness and continually surprise the visitor.
Never fixed permanently, the exhibition areas can be modulated to allow original interpretations of modern and contemporary art.
Entering the Centre Pompidou-Metz will be a unique event and an artistic adventure.
