Rappelons le mot de Francis Ponge : « Moins donc un monument, que, s’il faut inventer ce mot : un moviment. » Francis Ponge, L’Écrit Beaubourg, Paris, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 1977.
Ferme-la. Paris n'a pas besoin de cela pour être défigurée : les reno*s et les rebe*s s'en chargent déjà très bien. Au contraire, ce bâtiment relève un peu le niveau.
That's really a matter of taste; the quality of a building and architecture in general is more about the quality of space or building in all of it's function. I think you must admit that after more than 40 years it is a huge succes and has seen many things come and go. It is a big contrast with the surrounding city and that is why I like it, because after 40 years it still keeps us talking about it. This was exactly the intention of the architects but certainly what it's founder would have wanted; Georges Pompidou.
