Lord Richard Rogers is a brittish architect known for his odd style, wherein he often designs a building inside out. He, along with Italian Renzo Piano designed the Pompidou Centre. In the end, Rogers' style makes a lot more sense than the current norm. He figures that if he puts most of the supporting structure and building auxiliary stuff on the outside there will be much more room in the interior. This is why the Pompidou Centre looks so small on the outside and so big on the inside. Just to make it artistic, Rogers and Piano decided to paint the ducts on the outside of the building according to the color scheme you would find on the standard contractor's blue prints. Air Conditioning ducts are blue, water pipes are green, electricity lines are yellow, escalators are red, and the ventilation shafts for the basement are white. The steel beams on the outside (as seen in the picture on the top) are the actual framework of the building, usually hidden behind brick and stucco. This picture on the top must have been taken from the street to the LDS church (I stole the picture from the internet).
Now check out the other picture I put down on the bottom. The building in the foreground (not the cool cylander pyramid thingy, that's St Mary Axe) is the Lloyd's of London building. Its in London (duh!). Any good actuary should know that it was Lloyd who pretty much invented modern insurance in his London coffee shop. The company's new building was designed by Richard Rogers. Notice that it is inside out as well, just not colored the same way as the Pompidou Centere. He even left the construction cranes there as part of the building. I think that's pretty cool stuff, and I'd really like to see the building. Perhaps our next European tour will be London. I'd like that. By the way, Richard Rogers has been commisioned to design the third of the five new towers to replace the World Trade Center in New York City.
Lord Richard Rogers is a brittish architect known for his odd style, wherein he often designs a building inside out. He, along with Italian Renzo Piano designed the Pompidou Centre. In the end, Rogers' style makes a lot more sense than the current norm. He figures that if he puts most of the supporting structure and building auxiliary stuff on the outside there will be much more room in the interior. This is why the Pompidou Centre looks so small on the outside and so big on the inside. Just to make it artistic, Rogers and Piano decided to paint the ducts on the outside of the building according to the color scheme you would find on the standard contractor's blue prints. Air Conditioning ducts are blue, water pipes are green, electricity lines are yellow, escalators are red, and the ventilation shafts for the basement are white. The steel beams on the outside (as seen in the picture on the top) are the actual framework of the building, usually hidden behind brick and stucco. This picture on the top must have been taken from the street to the LDS church (I stole the picture from the internet). 
Now check out the other picture I put down on the bottom. The building in the foreground (not the cool cylander pyramid thingy, that's St Mary Axe) is the Lloyd's of London building. Its in London (duh!). Any good actuary should know that it was Lloyd who pretty much invented modern insurance in his London coffee shop. The company's new building was designed by Richard Rogers. Notice that it is inside out as well, just not colored the same way as the Pompidou Centere. He even left the construction cranes there as part of the building. I think that's pretty cool stuff, and I'd really like to see the building. Perhaps our next European tour will be London. I'd like that. By the way, Richard Rogers has been commisioned to design the third of the five new towers to replace the World Trade Center in New York City.
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