techPlate 291 · Metz, France

Centre Pompidou-Metz

A roof learned origami and became a museum.

2010 · Shigeru Ban & Jean de Gastines · Europe

The chamber score

Viderunt Omnes

Pérotin · c. 1198

Gothic, invented as music first.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

Ban's undulating timber roof, among the most inventive museums of its decade.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Centre Pompidou-Metz through tech — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Centre Pompidou-Metz was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.