The Georges Pompidou Centre ART, Design & Revolution
Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, along with Gianfranco Franchini.
Type Culture and leisure
Architectural style Postmodern / high-tech
Architect Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Gianfranco Franchini
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Location Paris, France
Completed 1971–1977
It houses the Bibliothèque publique d'information (Public Information Library), a vast public library, the Musée National d'Art Moderne, which is the largest museum for modern art in Europe, and IRCAM, a centre for music and acoustic research. Because of its location, the Centre is known locally as Beaubourg (IPA: [bobuʁ]). 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. As of 2006, the Centre Pompidou has had over 180 million visitors since 1977 and more than 5,209,678 visitors in 2013, including 3,746,899 for the museum.
The sculpture, Horizontal by Alexander Calder, a free-standing mobile that is twenty-five feet high (7.6m), was placed in 2012 in front of the Centre Pompidou.
DESIGN
The Centre was designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano; British architect Richard Rogers; and Italian architect Gianfranco Franchini, assisted by Ove Arup & Partners. The project was awarded to this team in an architectural design competition, whose results were announced in 1971. It was the first time in France that international architects were allowed to participate. World-renowned architects Oscar Niemeyer, Jean Prouvé and Philip Johnson made up the jury which would select one design out of the 681 entries.
National Geographic described the reaction to the design as love at second sight. An article in Le Figaro declared Paris has its own monster, just like the one in Loch Ness. But two decades later, while reporting on Rogers' winning the Pritzker Prize in 2007, The New York Times noted that the design of the Centre turned the architecture world upside down and that Mr. Rogers earned a reputation as a high-tech iconoclast with the completion of the 1977 Pompidou Centre, with its exposed skeleton of brightly coloured tubes for mechanical systems. The Pritzker jury said the Pompidou revolutionized museums, transforming what had once been elite monuments into popular places of social and cultural exchange, woven into the heart of the city.
LE CENTRE POMPIDOU un film de Richard Copans
Director: Richard Copans
Authors: Stan Neumann, Richard Copans
Producers: ARTE FRANCE, LES FILMS D'ICI, RMN
The Center Georges Pompidou, which celebrates its 30 years, has become the third most visited monument in France.
In the historic heart of Paris, a center devoted to public reading, art and contemporary creation: the Center Georges Pompidou was built between 1970 and 1977. It required a new museum of modern art for Paris, a new Library, a contemporary music center, larger premises for the Design Center. President Pompidou decides to bring them all together in a single building intended to accommodate a very wide audience. Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano conceived a constantly evolving information center, a blend of computerized Times Square and the British Museum, all focused on the participation of people who go there and the activities that take place there .
IN FRENCH
Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou (CNAC)
Le Centre Pompidou est un établissement polyculturel situé dans le quartier Saint-Merri, dans le 4e arrondissement de Paris, entre le quartier des Halles, à l'ouest et le Marais, à l'est.
Pays Drapeau de la France France
Ville Paris
Adresse Place Georges-Pompidou 75004 Paris
Coordonnées 48° 51′ 38″ nord, 2° 21′ 09″ est
Le centre est né de la volonté de Georges Pompidou, alors président de la République française, de créer au cœur de Paris une institution culturelle originale entièrement vouée à la création moderne et contemporaine où les arts plastiques voisineraient avec les livres, le design, la musique et le cinéma.
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