THE LIVE CENTRE OF INFORMATION

When, on July 19, 1971, Jean Prouvé and Robert Bordaz unveiled the competition-winning design for the Centre Beaubourg in Paris, now known as the Centre national dart et de culture Georges Pompidou, press and public reaction was harsh. The project architects, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and Gianfranco Franchini, were considered unknowns, its promoters, the engineers of the firm Ove Arup <(>y<)> Partners, were simply forgotten, the original idea of a Live Centre of Information, with its sequences of flexible platforms suspended over a...[Read more]