Palais de Tokyo: Renovated
opening April '12
Paris
In April 2012, the newly renovated and extended Palais de Tokyo in Paris will re-open its doors to the public
Following ten months of renovation works by the architects Anne Lacaton and Jean- Philippe Vassal, who were also responsible for the design of the building’s first restoration in the late 1990s, the Palais de Tokyo now occupies the entire 22,000 m2 building, making it Europe’s largest contemporary art centre.
The walls or the physical state of the Palais de Tokyo were never seen as a desired or particular esthetic. In architecture, esthetics is important but it is the consequence of a work process. And if there is a Palais de Tokyo esthetic, it is certainly not that of the raw cement walls, but one that has emerged from the entirety of the conceptual work and now from its daily use.
- Anne Lacaton and Jean- Philippe Vassa
Palais de Tokyo, June 2011 © Patrick Tourneboeuf/Tendance Floue/Oppic.
Palais de Tokyo, June 2011 © Patrick Tourneboeuf/Tendance Floue/Oppic.
7. Palais de Tokyo, Octobre 2011 © Patrick Tourneboeuf/Tendance Floue/Oppic.
