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- Title: Centre Pompidou-Metz (Reports: Berlin/Metz)
- Author : Alex Coles
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 46 KB
Description
From an intriguing cardboard-constructed micro-studio attached to the sixth-floor balcony of the Pompidou Centre in Paris in 2004 (in which Shigeru Ban's team worked on the new building for the project's duration) to looking like a shiny white Sainsbury's superstore--just what precisely went wrong with the Pompidou-Metz? A quotation from the museum's website, which perfectly sets the scene--both visually and ideologically--gives you a sense: '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.' This is an awful PR spin on the premise of the new museum. (Since when was a roof not protective?) Even an HR department in a university could come up with something better than this--that is, something that veils their true dumbness. The blame, and I use this strong term advisedly, surely rests with the building development committee alongside the architect's office. Together they demonstrate a combined ignorance towards three crucial things that should surely have served as the starting point in their inquiry into the very premise of the project. These are: what a museum of modern and contemporary art can be; the complex and extended discourse the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, has accrued since its completion; and the precise community and political history of the town of Metz.
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