Comments on: Centre Pompidou-Metz by Shigeru Ban

By: Hannah

Hannah — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:35:00 +0000

The plant room is wedged in under the canopy and above the topmost gallery.

By: Oxfordone

Oxfordone — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:09:43 +0000

I just visited it yesterday. I was gobsmacked by how terrible it is!! The roof doesnt actually do anything and there is no connection between it and the galleries underneath. The circulation (2 lifts and a fire escape) are simply dreadful, there are no views out because of the roof, you actually have a view over the roof of the galleries which is dead space. The atrium is actually horrible, cheap badly used materials abound. You have got to see the entrance to the cafe to believe it! Ban may have destroyed his career with this building.

By: sphglass

sphglass — Sun, 23 May 2010 11:39:56 +0000

i can’t really digest this final result either; my first impulse, like others, is to reject the combination of the undulation of the canopy and the masculine geometry of the insides…
but, who knows… the parisian centre pompidou did produce bad reactions at the beginning as well, and then made the architectural theory books, so maybe in some years this criticism will turn around to us and bite us in the derriere … : )
i’d still stand up to my beliefs in that case: it’s wrong from both materials’ and geometrical morality point of view.

By: egts

egts — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:15:39 +0000

we made the floor resins and we are proud of the general enthusiasm for this project

By: sameh arar

sameh arar — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:09:56 +0000

please can any body send me the plan and the section for this building