Wanderlust World Wanderlust World The Centre Pompidou (opened 1977) was designed by a multidisciplinary team that won the 1971 international competition:
Their revolutionary "inside-out" design exposed structural, mechanical, and circulation systems on the exterior (color-coded: blue=air, green=water, yellow=electricity, red=circulation), freeing vast column-free interior spaces for flexible exhibition use.
The building transformed museum architecture, sparked the "high-tech" movement, and became a Paris landmark. Piano and Rogers later won Pritzker Prizes (1998, 2007); Rice received the Royal Gold Medal (1992).