Centre Pompidou-Metz

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Lonely Planet review

Come the spring of 2008, the Centre Pompidou-Metz - a branch of the inside-out original in Paris - is supposed to open its doors to aficionados of modern and contemporary art. The winning design, by Shigeru Ban (Tokyo) and Jean de Gastines (Paris), is like nothing else ever conceived by the human mind. Suffice it to say that the whole thing will be covered by an undulating, translucent 'membrane' of Teflon-coated fibreglass. The project may do for Metz what the Guggenheim did for Bilbao.