Paris Rooftops from Centre Pompidou, Sacré-Cœur on the Horizon

5 October 2017 · Paris

From the exterior structure of Centre Pompidou, the steel frame carves the view into sections — Haussmann façades in the foreground, Montmartre rising behind them, Sacré-Cœur just visible through the overcast autumn sky. The building is usually the subject; here it becomes the frame, and Paris does the rest. An elevated panorama of the city compressed into layers, from the Beaubourg piazza below to the hilltop basilica four kilometres north.