Centre Georges Pompidou
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Title
Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou
Agent
Renzo Piano (Italian architect, born 1937)
Richard Rogers (British architect, born 1933)
Location
Paris, Île-de-France, France
51.213063
Date
1971-1977 (creation)
20th century
Style Period
Modernist
Cultural Context
French
Worktype
buildings
exhibition buildings
museums
art museums
Material
Steel superstructure with reinforced concrete floors and glass
Technique
construction
Subject
Architecture and City Planning
Description
Interior view of exposed firehose
The museum now holds one of the finest collections of 20th-century art in the world. The centre also functions as a showcase for all the creative arts, and there is an ambitious programme of temporary exhibitions. The building is ostentatiously modern, particularly in contrast to the historic buildings which surround it. Built between 1971 and 1977 to the designs of Renzo Piano (1937-) and Richard Rogers (1933- ), the service ducts and escalators are placed on the exterior of the building and brightly colour-coded to reveal their functions
thus the interior is singularly adaptable, having no fixed internal walls. The building is now a major tourist attraction, visited by more people than the Eiffel Tower. However, it has been criticized as unsuitable for displaying paintings and, more damagingly, for the durability of the exterior which has weathered badly.
Rights
© Javier Gomez
ID
GOMEZAT3426
Source
Javier Gomez
State Edition
35 mm slides
Collection
Citation
Piano, Renzo and Richard Rogers, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1971-1977 (creation), Paris, Île-de-France, France, TTU Arch Design Images. Image Source: Javier Gomez. https://archimage.lib.ttu.edu/items/show/17562.
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