Incredible Shigeru Ban Pompidou-Metz Art Museum Rises in France Architecture. Design Architecture. 03/29/2010. under ... the narrow galleries jut through the roof to provide window space for ...

METZ, France — In 1977, the Pompidou Center opened as France’s answer to the growing worry that New York had replaced Paris as the capital of modern art. It was a controversial and complicated ...

Planting the huge new venue in Metz, a town of 130,000 people in what was once part of Germany, its creators aim to shift the gravity of France's national art collections, which critics say is ...

With its distinctive golden glow and one of the world’s largest expanses of stained glass, France’s Gothic icon is – on its 800th birthday – still adapting to the times.

With its distinctive golden glow and one of the world’s largest expanses of stained glass, France’s Gothic icon is – on its 800th birthday – still adapting to the times.