This morning, at the Centre Pompidou Metz, Philippe Starck and Yvon Gérard, with Dominique Gros, Mayor of Metz and Jean-Luc Bohl, Chairman of Metz Métropole have unveiled their hotel project will be launched in 2018.
At the heart of the new district of the Amphitheatre Metz, Philippe Starck has designed this full unconventional hotel resonates with the Centre Pompidou Metz, as a work of living art, surreal and poetic who registers strong sign of the city of Metz.
"This project is a masterful architecture unconventional. It is a play on the uprooted roots, a symbolic construction of Lorraine. "Philippe Starck.
This hotel project is part of the social development ambition, its economic and ecological area dedicated to culture, housing and business. First high-rise building (IGH) built in Moselle, respectful of High Standards Environmental Quality HEQ - RT2012, it contributes by its close proximity to the museum, Muse Apsys mall and convention center to diversify and strengthen the attractiveness of this future European pole.
"Metz attracting great architects, admiring its beauty and its rich heritage. History and Metz urbanism, they are great names of Jean-François Blondel to Rudy Ricciotti, through Ricardo Bofill, Jean Dubuisson, Christian de Portzamparc or Nicolas Michelin. The famous designer Philippe Starck, well known for its Messins streetlights illuminating the Station Square, comes to bring his touch, his label, his talent for enhancing the attractiveness and wealth architecture of our city. "Dominique Gros, Mayor of Metz.
This project is a local land involving various private partners and organized around Yvon Gerard, founder and owner who will carry out the investment of twenty million.
"I am particularly proud to have convinced Philippe Starck, who embodies the French genius of our time, trust me for this challenge he has beautifully observed and which is part of the route the virtuous circle that currently lives Metropolis Messina around the Pompidou Centre. This hotel will be a useful and beautiful tool for Better Living in Metz and a lighthouse illuminating the Lorraine region. " Yvon Gerard.
The company lorraine Demathieu Bard Real Estate, including director of the Centre Pompidou Metz, has was chosen to ensure the construction-promoting this exceptional architectural object.
"Demathieu Bard Real Estate is pleased to develop this iconic project. We will have at heart to deploy all skills, engineering and technical Group Demathieu Bard, to bring out this building that will register as a real signal of the heart ZAC Amphitheatre. "Philippe Jung, CEO Demathieu Bard Real Estate.
The operators of the hotel and restaurant on the rooftop terrace will be announced later, the call offers are still open.
After many hotel interior design creations - including Le Meurice and Le Royal Monceau in Paris or international hotel chains Mama Shelter and SLS, Philippe Starck designs its first hotel in Metz architectural construction made from ground bare France.
The future building of 5 000m2, the monolithic and monochromatic architecture, will amount 12 floors including a roof terrace with stunning views over the city of Metz. With 90 rooms and 9 comfortable and elegant suites, the restaurants will add warm and poetic lounge bar, a gym and a spa dedicated to health and well-being as well as meeting space privatized.
"Philippe Starck as great as whimsical occupies a privileged place in the constellation of the great contemporary designers, the star. I am very happy that he can, with this hotel, bring her joy of life and inventiveness and thus help shape our territory and mark his signing our history. "Jean-Luc Bohl, Chairman of Metz Métropole.
