Centre Georges Pompidou

Centre Georges Pompidou also known as the Pompidou Centre in English is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris It was designed in the style of hight - tech architectural

High-tech architecture is an architectural style that emerged in the 1970s, incorporating elements of high-tech industry and technology into building design. High-tech architecture appeared as a revamped modernism, an extension of those previous ideas aided by even more advances in technological achievements. This category serves as a bridge between modernism and post - modernism, however there remain gray areas as to where one category ends and the other begins. In the 1980s, high-tech architecture became more difficult to distinguish from post-modern architecture. Many of its themes and ideas were absorbed into the language of the post-modern architectural schools.

It was designed by:

Renzo Piano

Richard Rodgers

Su Rogers

Gianfranco Franchini

and structural engineers: Edmund Happold and Peter Rice

It is a building in two parts:

1. Three levels of infrastructure where they gather technical facilities and service,

2. A large glass and steel superstructure of seven levels, including the terrace and the mezzanine, which concentrates most sectors of activity of the Center, with the exception of Ircam, located in the plaza Stravinsky

The plant is rectangular, with the longer sides on the front of the square and the service. On the top floor there is a famous restaurant meal merger. It has a patio at the upper right (as the building looks from the square).I am not personally farmiliar with this building but when I first saw it I thought it looked almost unfinished like the scaffolds where still attached I think this made it look quite complicated and open because there are not straight flat walls. I like the staircase as it doesn’t go upwards normally but is more elongated on each platform.