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Yeah, I guess the Barbican flats don't look as bad as the theatre bit etc. I prefer the Lloyds building to the Pompidou. Less Fisher-Price colours.
by gadders 8y ago
Yeah, I guess the Barbican flats don't look as bad as the theatre bit etc.
I prefer the Lloyds building to the Pompidou. Less Fisher-Price colours.
- CaptainZapp 8y agoThe colors are not arbitrary, since they encode functionality. From [1] One of the distinctive features of the Centre Pompidou is the striking presence of colour. Four strong colours – blue, red, yellow and green – clothe the structure and enliven the façade, their use governed by a code laid down by the architects: blue for circulating air (air conditioning) yellow for circulating electricity green for circulating water red for circulating people (escalators and lifts). [1] https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/The-Centre-Pompidou/The-Building https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/The-Centre-Pompidou/The-Bui...
- gadders 8y agoA friend was a senior IT guy at Lloyds. He said the building was a pig, functionally. All the network cables etc had to go down the pipes on the outside of the building.