Renzo Piano Builds for the 21st Century

The Georges Pompidou Center, Paris
Piano was still in his thirties when he became famous for the wildly unconventional museum in Paris, which he co-designed with the British architect Richard Rogers. The Pompidou, which opened in 1977, was a building turned inside out, with ventilation ducts, structural supports and an escalator draped around the exterior.

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