彩色炼油厂，另类蓬皮杜

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蓬皮杜中心建成已有35年 其魅力从诞生之日其至今丝毫不减
Hints:
Parisian
Pompidou Centre
Richard Rogers
Vincent Dowd
Georges Pompidou
longue (long是用法语发音说出来的)
Renzo Piano
主持：haifaforever
校对：早安Miki
翻译&注解：haifaforever
答疑：Vechosy35 years ago, Parisians were getting used to a new and very different kind of building in their midst. The Pompidou Centre was built as a grand new home for modern art. One of the architects who designed the building, Richard Rogers, has been talking to Vincent Dowd.
The voice of Georges Pompidou, president of France from 1969. One of his early acts was to commission a big new cultural centre for Paris. In fact, Pompidou didn't live to see it. He died in 1974. But when it opened, it was an immediate hit with Parisians and tourists alike. Today, 35 years on, it still is.
Outside on the Pompidou Centre's large and gently sloping piazza, the street musicians and performers are just beginning to assemble, as they do most mornings. Once the doors open at 11, the longue queues of visitors quickly disappear inside.
It's a big, strikingly colourful building of glass and steel, in 1977 radically different from the rest of Paris. The competition to design it had been anonymous. To general surprise, the winning design of 700 submissions was the work of an Anglo-Italian partnership - Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano. They shared a vision: the new centre should be open and democratic.35年前，巴黎人开始接受出现在自己城市中的一幢与众不同的新建筑。蓬皮杜中心建成，它是现代艺术的崭新家园。建筑师理查德·罗杰斯是设计者之一，他与文森特·道德进行了一席访谈。
这是乔治·蓬皮杜的声音，他自1969年起任法国总统。他在位早期的一项举措就是下令为巴黎兴建一座新的大型文化中心。事实上，蓬皮杜逝世于1974年，未能在有生之年内看到这座中心落成。而当它终于对外开放之际，蓬皮杜中心立刻轰动一时，无论是巴黎人还是外来游客都趋之若鹜。而今35年过去了，它魅力依旧。
在蓬皮杜中心外那略带倾斜的宽大广场上，街头音乐家们和街头表演家们正在聚集，这是他们大多数早上的惯例。上午11点一开门，排在外面的长队就会迅速消失在门内。
这是一座由玻璃和钢铁组成的巨大建筑，色彩鲜艳夺目，这在1977年可是和巴黎的其余地方大相迳庭的。设计方案的竞标是以无具名方式进行的，结果令大家都跌破了眼镜，在700份提交方案中脱颖而出的竟然是一对英意搭档——英国人理查德·罗杰斯和意大利人冉左·皮艾诺。他们有一个共同的理念：新的文化中心应该体现开放民主的风格。