For 10 points, name this Parisian building that was designed by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, and named for a Prime Minister of France.
This structure is notoriously called a "Trojan Horse" in Sanford Kwinter's book Requiem: For the City at the End of the Millennium. To help engineer this masterpiece, 9-ton, cast-steel "gerberettes" were used to support its long trusses. Along with a building in New York City, Nam June Paik broadcasted Good Morning, Mr. Orwell from this building. Jean Tinguely's kinetic sculptures of a firebird and a fox can be found at Stravinsky Fountain, which is nearby this building that was inspired by Archigram's "Plug-in City." This building, which houses a library, a medical center, and an art museum, contains no internal elevators. Instead, a large escalator attached to the front façade moves people along its seven floors. Giant blue tubes carry oxygen into this building, which gets its water from green tubes and electricity from yellow tubes. For 10 points, name this Parisian building that was designed by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, and named for a Prime Minister of France.
This structure is notoriously called a "Trojan Horse" in Sanford Kwinter's book Requiem:
Pompidou Center [or Centre Georges Pompidou; or Centre Pompidou]