#Architectural Secrets

(Épisode 8/15) Côté façade sud du Centre Pompidou, on trouve la place Igor-Stravinsky et sa fameuse …

(Episode 7/15) Now a cornerstone of the Centre Pompidou, Ircam (Institut de recherche et coordinatio…

(Episode 6/15) Before it burst onto the scene in its now-iconic pop colours, the Centre Pompidou nea…

(Episode 5/15) Beneath the cobblestones, the beach? Almost! Hidden beneath the Piazza and the Centre…

(Episode 4/15) If the Centre Pompidou were an animal, it would be a crab—bold and unconventional. Li…

(Episode 3/15) Stretching like a giant transparent tube along the façade, the escalator affectionate…

(Episode 2/15) Nicknamed everything from “Notre-Dame of the Pipes” to “the refinery” or “machine-mac…

(Episode 1/15) A vast, Italianate square, the Piazza slopes gently down to the foot of the Beaubourg…