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architects: Shigeru Ban & Jean de Gastines
OPENING: May 2010
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Opened in May this year, the new Centre Pompidou-Metz by Shigeru Ban + Jean de Gastines is quickly becoming an architectural icon in much the same way as its Renzo Piano-designed Parisian counterpart. The Museum of Modern Art located in Northeast France has been hotly debated, with controversy over its architectural attributes as well as marking the cultural decentralisation of a national institution.
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