A pilgrimage site for contemporary art and architecture, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris – which was built during the International Exhibition of Art and Technology in 1937 – gets an update through the interior intervention of Lina Ghotmeh Architecture. The Lebanese architect designed a new restaurant and terrace celebrating the beauty of the raw and the monumentality of the space.
The project is divided into three acts through three chromatic intensities: the informal, the intimate and the collective. “The unfinished and raw look of this museum has always fascinated me”, Ghotmeh explains. “I have the feeling of being at home, in a parallel state to that of my birth city Beirut. We feel good in these raw spaces – they open our creativity and they set us dreaming.”
