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Richard Rogers is one of the world's best known architects, and is behind some of the world's best known, and occasionally most controversial, buildings Perhaps his most notorious is the Centre Pompidou, which is located in Paris in the 4th arrondissement The 4th arrondissement houses some of the most revered traditionally designed buildings in Paris, including Notre-Dame de Paris as well as the Renaissance-era Paris Hôtel de Ville, and the radically, unapologetically different, high-tech open design of the Centre Pompidou excited a storm of debate when it first opened to the public in 1977 - most notable was its "Inside-out" design, with all the ducts, plumbing, and electrical conduits, which are usually carefully hidden from the eye, exposed on the exterior of the building. Source