what is Pompidou centore?
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Answer:
It houses the Bibliothèque publique d'information (Public Information Library), a vast public library; the Musée National d'Art Moderne, which is the largest museum for modern art in Europe; and IRCAM, a centre for music and acoustic research.
known for :
Primarily a museum and centre for the visual arts of the 20th century, the Pompidou Centre houses many separate services and activities. Its museum of modern art brought under one roof several public collections of modern art previously housed in a number of other Paris galleries
made up of :
The centre is like a huge spaceship made of glass, steel and coloured tubing that landed unexpectedly in the heart of the Paris, and where it would very quickly set deep roots," Piano said of the building. Described by Piano as a "big urban toy", Centre Pompidou contains six-storeys of large column-free spaces
style :
Brutalist architecture
Postmodern Architecture
High-tech architecture
reason it was built :
The building was the vision of the man it's named after, France's leader between 1962 and 1968. President Georges Pompidou had the idea of a space dedicated to the culture of the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together visual arts, literature, music, cinema and design in one unique multicultural institution.