"The structure forms a huge transparent box whose exposed frame of tubular steel columns carries trusses spanning the width of the building. External mechanical systems -- elevators painted red; escalators in clear plastic tunnels; and giant tubes for air (painted blue), water (green), and electricity (yellow) -- all are conspicuously placed outside the main columns.
Considerable controversy arose over the assertive industrial style of the Pompidou Center, whose bold "exo-skeletal" architecture contrasts violently with surrounding houses in the heart of an old section of Paris near the Hôtel de Ville"
its actually quite pretty. though we MISTOOK it for a construction site when we first saw it - and walked in the opposite direction.
Ou yang: Mostly described as a 3 year A old kid turning 24 in september. Only slightly eccentric, he dreams of becoming a Power Rangers toy doll. (only the luminous pink collectors edition model will do!) When he has tired of his toy doll persona, the idealist in him takes over - revealing the vocal humanist with a certain predilection for social *biology*. His interests include photography, academia and philosophy.
Ambition? To be the best damn doctor he can be.
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