This is Qom's second victory in France, following his success in Besançon this August, where the Japanese architect also won the right to implement his version of the building for the local Foundation for Contemporary Art.
The large-scale project with a budget of 9.8 million euros is part of the Euroméditerranée program - a development plan for the coastal region of Marseille, which includes the construction of various commercial and cultural enterprises, including the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations by Rudy Ricciotti and the Stefano Boeri Regional Center for the Mediterranean.
The FRAC, like the entire Euroméditerranée, is financed by the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur government and is due to open to visitors in 2011.
The Center provides space for conferences and exhibitions, archives and restoration workshops.
The FRAC facade will act as a huge information screen, which will display information about the events taking place there. Light glass volumes coexist with open terraces, on the walls of which images of works of art on display in the exhibition halls of the Center will be projected.
