Europe’s biggest architecture centre will open in Paris in spring 2007.
Called the Cité de l’Architecture & du Patrimoine, the 23,000sq m centre will be housed in the Palais de Chaillot and consist of galleries for exhibitions of historic and contemporary architecture plus a library and a research centre.
The centre will contain the permanent collection of the Musée des Monuments Français as well as presenting temporary exhibitions on contemporary architecture.
“It will open in March,” the centre’s director Francis Rambert told us. “It’s going to be a very big centre dedicated to architecture from the Roman period and the Gothic period to contemporary architecture.”
The historic Palais de Chaillot is being converted at a cost of €55 million by architect Jean-François Bodin, who recently worked on the restoration of the Pompidou Centre with Renzo Piano.
The Palais de Chaillot sits across the Seine from the Eiffel tower and was built to host the Exposition Internationale of 1937.
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