The Centre Pompidou in Paris was intended to be a building embodying change and transformation. A response to the street protests and the radicalism of 1968, it represented an idea of a less elitist, more accessible culture: open, public, responsive and novel. It embraced high and low arts; the avant garde and pop; performance, a public library and a panoply of new media. It has now become, however, like the Louvre, a heavily protected national monument, a heritage building.
巴黎蓬皮杜中心(Centre Pompidou)的设计初衷是成为一栋体现变革和转型的建筑。作为对1968年法国街头抗议和激进主义的回应,它代表着一种不那么精英化、更接地气的文化理念:开放、公开、与时代合拍、新颖。它融合了高雅艺术与低俗艺术、先锋艺术与流行艺术,并且集表演、公共图书馆和各种新媒体于一体。然而现在它已经像卢浮宫(Louvre)一样,成为一件受到严格保护的国家纪念物,一栋历史建筑。