Pompidou Centre-Paris

The Pompidou Centre in Paris is a marvel of modern architecture, providing its visitors with a unique opportunity to explore modern art in a centre which is as pleasing on the inside as it is out. It was built by Renzo Piano and British architect Richard Rogers, and is the largest museum for modern art in Europe. The centre has had over 150 million visitors, and was a massive success, owing(although it is open to speculation) to its unique appearance. To begin with all the structural elements of the building were colour coded due to their function, which is an example of way-finding. The building is the creation of competition: the conditions for its making were ‘interdisciplinarity, freedom of movement and flow, and an open approach to exhibition areas’, and the designers contended with these limitations by adding features like escalators situated on the outskirts of the building and improvising with transparent surfaces, allowing for direct vision both out and into the structure. The Pompidou Centre is an important architectural benchmark, as it signifies a revolutionary approach to the previously confined laws of building