Shigeru Ban Architects Centre Pompidou-Metz Project Portfolio

Project Specs

Centre Pompidou-Metz

Metz, France

Shigeru Ban Architects

the People

Architect

Shigeru Ban Architects Tokyo
- Shigeru Ban, Nobutaka Hiraga, Mamiko Ishida, Asako Kimura, Anne Scheou / Toshi Kubota, Hiroshi Maeda (graphic designer), Jean de Gastines Architectes, Paris

- Jean de Gastines
Gumuchdjian Architects, London

- Philip Gumuchdjian, Shinya Mori, Ralf Eikelberg

Design, Site administration
Shigeru Ban Architects Europe, Paris

- Shigeru Ban, Gerardo Perez, Marc Ferrand, Jacques Marie, Fayçal Tiaïba, Elsa Neufville, Vincent Laplante, Alessandro Boldrini, Hiromi Okada, Jeong Hoon Lee, Jae Whan Shin, Jonathan Thornhill, Rahim Danto Barry,

Jean de Gastines Architectes, Paris
- Jean de Gastines

Structure Competition
Ove Arup, London – Cecil Balmond

Design, Site administration
(1st phase)
Ove Arup, London
- Paul Nuttall, Sophie Le Bourva, Ben Lewis, David Gration, Andrew Lawrence, Holger Falter, Mathieu Jacques de Dixmude, James McLean

(2nd phase)
Terrell, Paris– Zbigniew Koszut, Laurence Dallot

Structure for the timber roof:
Hermann Blumer, Waldstatt (Switzerland)

MEP
Ove Arup, London
- Emmanuelle Danisi, Florence Collier, James Whelan, Chris Moore

Gec Ingénierie, Paris– Philippe Vivier, René Andrian

Lighting
L’Observatoire 1, Paris – Geroges Berne, Anthony Perrot, Remy Cimadevilla Icon, Paris - Akari-Lisa Ishii

Quantity surveyor:
J.P Tohier & Associés, Paris – Eric Le Dreo, Gerald Lamory

Acoustics:
Commins Acoustics workshop, Paris – Daniel Commins

Security consultant:
Cabinet Casso & Cie, Paris - Michel Walkowiak

General contractor
Demathieu & Bard, Metz

Timber roof
Holzbau Amann, Weilheim-Bannholz (Germany)

- Döbele Tobias, Martin Pfundt, Fredy Oberle, Klaus Tröndle, Peter Amann

SJB (for structural analysis)
- Franz Tshuemperlin, Samuel Keller