hopePlate 741 · Nouméa, New Caledonia

Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre

Ten wooden pavilions like Kanak houses, a cultural centre of a still-colonial sea.

1998 · Renzo Piano · Oceania

The chamber score

Kaneka, climate of

Kanak · New Caledonia

Tjibaou's house of ribs. The score is the clan.

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

Piano's Tjibaou Centre, among the great postcolonial cultural buildings.

Commission the full chamber

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

Ask the studio to reconstruct Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.