{"id":372876,"date":"2026-04-10T11:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/372876\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:45:10","slug":"visuals-of-centre-pompidou-hanwha-revealed-ahead-of-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/372876\/","title":{"rendered":"Visuals of Centre Pompidou Hanwha revealed ahead of opening"},"content":{"rendered":"

French architecture studio Wilmotte & Associ\u00e9s<\/a> has released visuals of the Centre Pompidou Hanwha in Seoul, South Korea<\/a>, which is set to open in June.<\/p>\n

Nearing completion in Seoul<\/a>‘s financial district, the cultural venue will encompass 11,000 square metres and operate as a partner venue to the Centre Pompidou<\/a> in Paris, which is currently undergoing a major renovation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Paris studio Wilmotte & Associ\u00e9s<\/a> will house Centre Pompidou Hanwha in the former annexe of the city’s 63 Building skyscraper, which once contained an aquarium.<\/p>\n

\"RenderWilmotte & Associ\u00e9s has unveiled Centre Pompidou Hanwha in Seoul<\/p>\n

Wilmotte & Associ\u00e9s’s design reimagines the existing structure as a “box of light”, with its exterior cloaked with a translucent double-glazed envelope. This will draw natural light in during the day and diffuse light to illuminate the building at night.<\/p>\n

The renders reveal a partially-glazed ground level paired with bands of translucent panels, which will be curved to evoke the forms of traditional Korean tiles.<\/p>\n

Spread across four levels, the Centre Pompidou Hanwha will accommodate two spacious exhibition galleries, each encompassing 1,500 square metres.<\/p>\n

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As part of its collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, one of these galleries will be entirely dedicated to major exhibitions based on the museum’s collection.<\/p>\n

Additional programmes will include educational spaces for young visitors.<\/p>\n

“Designed as a museum resolutely turned toward the future, Centre Pompidou Hanwha builds on Centre Pompidou’s tradition of innovation and offers a renewed interpretation of its collection in light of the Korean cultural and artistic context,” said the museum.<\/p>\n

\"ExteriorIt will occupy an existing structure reimagined as a “box of light”<\/p>\n

The Centre Pompidou Hanwha is set to open on 4 June in celebration of the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and South Korea.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, two other Centre Pompidou outposts are in development. In Brussels, KANAL-Centre Pompidou<\/a> is expected to reach completion in November, while a partner museum is being designed for Brazil.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, plans for the OMA-designed Centre Pompidou x Jersey City were recently scrapped<\/a> after years of negotiations.<\/p>\n

The major overhaul of the high-tech Centre Pompidou in Paris, led by Moreau Kusunoki and Frida Escobedo Studio,<\/a> is expected to be completed by 2030.<\/p>\n

It will see improvements made to movement and accessibility around the museum, which was designed by\u00a0Richard Rogers\u00a0and\u00a0Renzo Piano\u00a0and opened in 1977.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Wilmotte & Associ\u00e9s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French architecture studio Wilmotte & Associ\u00e9s has released visuals of the Centre Pompidou Hanwha in Seoul, South Korea,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,7900,45970,501,156,194735,8793,111,139,69,1621,1774,2384,8641,4790],"class_list":{"0":"post-372876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-centre-pompidou","13":"tag-cultural-buildings","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-jean-michel-wilmotte","17":"tag-museums","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-sectionall","22":"tag-sectionarchitecture","23":"tag-sectionnews","24":"tag-seoul","25":"tag-south-korea"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}