Paris, France

Centre Pompidou

Inaugurated in 1977, the Centre Pompidou was conceived by President Georges Pompidou as a multidisciplinary cultural center bringing modern art, design, cinema, performance, and a public library under one roof. The high-tech building by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, with its color-coded exterior services and exposed steel structure, turned infrastructure into architecture and remains one of the defining works of late-20th-century museum design. Its Musée National d'Art Moderne holds more than 120,000 works, the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe.

The Centre Pompidou, more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building complex in Paris, France. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of Richard Rogers, Su Rogers and Renzo Piano, along with Gianfranco Franchini. It is named after Georges Pompidou, the President of France from 1969 to 1974 who commissioned the building, and was officially opened on 31 January 1977 by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Source: Wikipedia