The most striking architectural style of Pompidou National Culture and Art Center is the breakthrough of internal and external cultural concepts. This is not a museum at all, but a modern oil refinery. It exposes the internal structure and equipment, and exaggerates all the power supply, water supply, heating and ventilation pipes outside the building to show its unique style as a decorative function. The colors of these exposed complex pipelines are regular: air conditioning pipelines are blue, water pipes are green, power pipelines are yellow and escalators are red. Exposed steel grids crisscross, bright pipes lurk behind the grids like blood vessels, transparent escalators swim outside the grids like a dragon, and the internal organs of other buildings are pulled out with great fanfare. Some scholars call it "the building with the stomach upside down".
The central building is168m long, 60m wide and 42m high from north to south, and is divided into six floors. The support of the building consists of two rows of steel pipe columns with a spacing of 48 meters. The floor can move up and down, and the stairs and all the equipment are completely exposed. The pipes in the east facade and the corridors in the west facade are covered by plexiglass dome. Inside the building, there are modern art museums, libraries and industrial design centers. In the south of it, there is the Institute of Music Acoustics in the underground of Little Square. The center breaks the design convention of cultural architecture and emphasizes the close relationship between modern science and technology and culture and art. It is the most typical representative of the technology-oriented school in modern architecture. This building uses 15000 tons of steel, 50000 tons of concrete, 1 10000 square meters of glass.
Structurally, they put this super-era behemoth in many ancient buildings in Paris with bold innovation, focusing on the exposed bracket structure and the transparent external wall of the pipeline, so that the building can keep the flexibility of being added and increased at any time to cope with all unpredictable changes and connect with the lives of citizens. There are many open squares in the base, which provide communication space and accommodate public activities, so that street art can be restored and become a "paradise" for artists. Around it, the streets and alleys in the Middle Ages are as dense as mesh cloth, and motor vehicles are completely forbidden to pass, so that tourists can enjoy themselves.
Rogers once said: "The skin of the building is very important, and it should provide a flexible space for the interior of the building." At the beginning, this condemned "huge monster" has been accepted by Parisians and gradually loved by them.
Some scholars call Pompidou Art Center a disgusting building.