Stock Photo - Centre Pompidou-Metz architects Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines has created a broad hexagonal structure with three galleries that runs through the building. It is structured round a central spire Reaching a height of 77 meters. The building is a two-curve superstructure with an assembly of wooden beams forming hexagonal modules and supported by a central metal tower and four conical pillars. With a surface area of 8.000 m2, fully constructed in wood, the roofing is made ??up of hexagonal units resembling the cane-work pattern of a Chinese hat. This structure is covered with a waterproof membrane made ??from fiberglass and Teflon (PTFE or Poly-Tetra-Fluoro-Ethylene).