La Bataille des couleurs

Before taking on its iconic pop colours, the Centre Pompidou very nearly ended up gold and blue, brown and even… all yellow! In the 1970s, during construction, the colour palette of the building designed by architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers (with Gianfranco Franchini and the engineers Ove Arup & Partners) became the subject of outlandish controversies. A true "battle of the colours" is traced in an inaugural exhibition of the same name at the Maison Pompidou.