Building Design
The centre’s architects, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Gianfranco Franchini designed the building on the lines of an “evolving spatial diagram”. The building was designed in two parts:
1. a 3-level infrastructure housing the technical facilities and service areas,
2. a vast 7-level glass and steel superstructure, including a terrace and mezzanine floor, concentrating most of the centre’s areas of activity together, except for Ircam which is in Place Stravinsky.
The Centre Pompidou’s designers aimed to maximise spatial movement and flow to foster an interdisciplinary approach.