Saturday, September 5, 2009
Georges Pompidou Centre
Yes, they REALLY built this!! I saw a coffetable book on this building in 1979 when I first started at Carson Pirie Scott. I decided then and there I must see Paris. Today, I finally stood in front of it. I was amazed! It is real and quite stands out from the Second Empire neighborhood it sits in! All the "insides", the mechanical systems, are on the outside, color coded. High Tech, the style is. And this is the height of it! Blue for air conditioning components; orange: heating: green: good water. The plaza was full of people for a Saturday night. All the resturants around it the people sat at the tables, facing the plaza. There was a street performer on a tight rope and a guy in metallic paint standing perfectly still until some came near.
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