Pompidou Centre
(Paris)
The building started construction in 1969 the building was officially opened in 1977 and has had over 150 million visitors since the building was constructed in a high tech style of architecture known as Structural Expressionism, it was made to show all the inner workings of the building, almost turning it inside out, the building was designed by Renzo Piano & Richard Rogers, later Richard Rogers went on to design the Loyds Building in London (Image below).
Loyds Building
It was created after the Pompidou Centre in very much the same style the building was very high tech for the time. As the features are on the outside the inside of the building is very clean and uncluttered. The building has 12 glass lifts that run along the outside of the building, they were the first of their type to be used in the UK.
the new loyds building was built on top of the old one however they preserved the main enterance at Leadenhall Street, the picture is also below.
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