His continued interest in lightweight structures was further explored in his De Menil Collection in Houston, Texas which he compares to the Pompidou Centre: ‘Paradoxically, the Menil Collection with its great serenity, its calm and its understatement is far more modern than Centre Pompidou.’ In Noum, New Caledonia in the south Pacific he designed the Tjibaou Cultural Centre, which addresses the difficulties of finding a way to express traditions of the Pacific in modem language. The 10 hut-like structures of the centre, of up to nine storeys, are organised into three villages.