Live Webcam from the building site Centre Pompidou-Metz
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.
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. Live from the building site: Centre Pompidou-Metz Webcam
The Centre Pompidou-Metz, the culmination of a meeting between the Metz Métropole urban area and the Centre Pompidou, will be opening its doors in 2010. The Centre Pompidou-Metz, a key international cultural centre featuring an innovative and audacious architectural design, will showcase the collection of the Centre Pompidou which, with its 60,000 exhibits, boasts the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe.
