The Georges Pompidou Center in the Marais District of Paris.

I am dredging up more pictures from my Paris trip. Part of this re-visit is plainly for nostalgia. The other component, however, is to surround myself with really energizing things.

The image is of the Georges Pompidou Centre–located in the Marais district–and, I love the lines of the building. It is architecturally interesting with all of the plumbing, heating/cooling, wiring, and exhaust pipes built on the OUTSIDE of the building rather than being nested within the walls.

The Marais, where the Pompidou Center is located, was a fashionable neighborhood where the French Bourgeoisie lived until the French Revolution–when they were beheaded by the peasants. The neighborhood was left alone, for the most part, until the 1970’s (about 200 years later) when it was rediscovered because of the low property prices and historic buildings. The properties were mostly undisturbed, and close to historic sites–Place de Nation, and the ruins of the Bastille Prison (which the peasants burned to the ground after their successful revolution).

The Georges Pompidou Center, the Picasso Museum of Modern Art, and The Museum of History and Science were all built in the Marais within the timespan of about 15 years.