The Pompidou centre is the home of the Bibliothèque publique d'information, which is a large public library, the Musée National d'Art Moderne, which is the biggest museum for modern art in Europe, and also the IRCAM, a centre for music and acoustic research. The Pompidou centre is named after the president of france of 1969 to 1974 Georges Pompidou who decided its creation.
The Pompidou centre has a strong visual identity  due to its boldness. This is done through the use of strong block colours on the tubes alternating around the structure. Its visual identity is also made strong by the design of the building itself which is almost unique from any other buildings because of its almost inside out look created by all the tubes and poles on show as if covered by a colourful scaffolding.