Centre Pompidou building Paris

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Centre Pompidou building is very popular. Centre Pompidou is an American foundation is dedicated to supporting the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Centre Pompidou was designed in 1977 by architect Renzo Piano and Richard Rodgers to make art and culture accessible to all people.
Centre Pompidou first opened in 1977. The Centre Pompidou managed to accomplish what few cultural centers have. Centre Pompidou developed as a space where art and culture seems to be accessible to the public. Seen in terms of its architecture is central to smack live in Paris. The player draws a crowd in the square, slanted, while students marched to access Central Library. Inside, remain perfect at home in the Cafe mezzanine level is open. And the National Museum of Modern Art houses many of the most interesting of the 20th century. Factory style architecture contrasts with the surrounding houses the oldest district of Paris, between the Notre-Dame Cathedral and the Louvre Museum.


The Centre Pompidou is something of a victim of its own success. It was much criticized for requiring temporary closure for a major renovation after only twenty years' service, but this is at least mitigated by the volume of people it has been required to host: over 25,000 per day, compared with the 5,000 anticipated. And if its massive, brightly colored, maverick form looks less radical today, that's because of how much its revolutionary hi-tech construction has been copied and extended.

The Centre Pompidou broke the mold with its 'inside out' construction: the steel skeleton from which the floors are suspended dominantly visible from the outside, together with the giant external escalators, with the color-coded service ducts exposed on both the inside and out. Now that the fact of these appearances is no longer shocking, attention focus on how they are done. Twenty years, on the escalator remains a phenomenon, and the plaza continues to thrive, but the exhibition spaces themselves, and the rather dry, regular block shape of the overall building, are beginning to come across as almost a little dull.