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								  |  | Centre Pompidou - Metz 
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| ARCHITECTURE  |  | Museums and buildings for exhibitions Art museums |  |  
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                                    | "Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France", L'Arca 265, gennaio/january 2011 [La scena della cultura / The culture scene], pp. 46-55 |  
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                                    | Owen Pritchard, "Centre Pompidou - Metz", Blueprint 291, june 2010, pp. 62-68 |  
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                                    | Will Hunter, "Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, Lorraine, France", Architectural Review 1360, june 2010, pp. 52-57 |  
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                                    | Catherine Slessor, "Shigeru Ban's 'Pompidou of the south' prepares to open", Architectural Review 1359, may 2010, pp. 24-25 |  
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                                    | "A Metz, la grande antenna del Centre Pompidou / In the Metz, the big antenna of the Pompidou Centre", Domus 936, maggio/may 2010, pp. 14-15 |  
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                                    | Fabian Scheurer, "File-to-Factory oder: Der Wert der Experten / File to factory production and expertise", Detail 5/2010 [Analog und Digital / Analogue and Digital / Analogique et numérique], "Technik / technology" pp. 482-486 |  
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                                    | Laurent Miguet (ed.), Moniteur Architecture AMC 196, avril 2010 [Spécial Centre Pompidou-Metz] |  
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                                    | Karine Dana, "Un chapiteau a Metz / A circus big top in Metz", Moniteur Architecture AMC 195, mars/march 2010, p. 24 |  
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                                    | "Pompidou Centre in Metz", Blueprint 287, february 2010 [Japanese architecture and design], p. 20 |  
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                                    | Rosie Spence, "Centre Pompidou-Metz", Icon 83, may 2010, pp. 54-55 |  
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                                    | "Centro Pompidou, Metz (Francia) /Pompidou Center, Metz (France). Ban & De Gastines", AV MonografÃas/Monographs 139 [Museos del mundo/Museums of the World], IX-X 2009, "Un viaje en doce etapas/A Journey in Twelve Stages" pp. 82-87 |  
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                                    | Silvia Infusino, "Un fratello per il Centre Pompidou", Il giornale dell'architettura 14, gennaio 2007, p. 10 |  
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                                    | Deborah Snoonian, "In France, another Pompidou Center takes shape", Architectural Record 9/2005, september 2005, pp. 176-177 |  |  
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                                    | CA2M Communauté d’Agglomération de Metz Métropole Ville de Metz
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                                    | total ca. sq.m. 12.000 exhibition spaces ca. sq.m. 6.000
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                                    | Photos © Didier Boy de la Tour Courtesy of Shigeru Ban Architects | Pritzker Architectura Prize
 
 
 
 
 
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