Fah Kanjanavanit: Looking Out Week 11

This is the Centre Pompidou-Metz by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban (who just won the Prtizer prize) is located in France. The roof is CNC-machine laminated timber beams. It took them ten months to prepare and 4 months to install the wood because it is made up of 18km of glue-laminated timber beams. Each wooden beam was also cnc-ed to different proportions. The wooden framing is covered by a translucent fibreglass and Teflon textile canopy.