Centre Pompidou Exoskeleton — Paris Steel Truss Detail

5 October 2017 · Paris

From a low angle, the Centre Pompidou's structural exoskeleton becomes pure geometry — white steel trusses layering across an overcast sky, blue cladding punching through the lattice, industrial ducting looping between levels. Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers put the building's skeleton on the outside; this angle makes that decision look less like provocation and more like inevitability. The overcast sky strips the scene to structure alone.