Hats off to Shigeru Ban’s Pompidou-Metz

By and Beatrice Galilee Beatrice Galilee2007-04-13T00:00:00

The 1:200 scale perspex model made for the wind tunnel tests.

A ‘woven’ roof is the unifying feature at the Pompidou Centre’s new gallery. But the gesture is not as simple as it may appear, as Beatrice Galilee discovered when she spoke to Arup’s roof team

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