will gompertz has been speaking to two of the original architects, richard rodgers and renzo piano aboutring legacy. ah, paris, beautiful, romantic, and radical. a city of revolutions, riots and avant—garde ideas. like the pompidou centre, which in 1977 was like an electric shock for cultural conservatives. a daring, inside out building with its guts on show and weird caterpillar escalators crawling up its facade. these two self—confessed bad boys were behind its creation. unknown iconoclasts back then, respected pillars of society today. they hadn't expected their design to beat the 680 competing proposals. and when it did, a steep learning curve awaited. it was a miracle, we had court cases against us, everybody hated it, nobody had worse press than we did. it was only when it opened and people started to line up and people started to come in and the figures were fantastic, it changed. this building was a shift, it was celebrating a shift, a change. yes. and when the change occurs in society, it's never easy, it's never easy. the change was in the air. it was in the air of may '68, it

arts editor will gompertz has been speaking to two of the original architects, richard rogers and renzo pianodical. a city of revolutions, riots and avant—garde ideas. like the pompidou centre, which in 1977 was like an electric shock for cultural conservatives. a daring, inside—out building, with its guts on show and weird these two self—confessed bad boys were behind its creation, unknown iconoclasts back then, respected pillars of society today. they hadn't expected their design to beat the 680 competing proposals. and, when it did, a steep learning curve awaited. we were very naive. i mean, we were young kids out of school, without work. but, as very many naive people, we didn't realise how complicated it was. had we realised, i doubt we would've done the competition. and it was a miracle we were taken. we had court cases against us, everybody hated it, nobody had worse press than we did. it was only when it opened, and people started to line up and come in, and the figures were fantastic, it changed. this building was a shift, it was celebrating a shift, a change. yes. and when the chang

arts editor will gompertz has been speaking to two of the original architects, richard rogers and renzo pianontic ing legacy. about the popid( romantic and egacy. radical. a city of revolutions, riots and ava nt—garde radical. a city of revolutions, riots and avant—garde ideas, like the pompidou centre, which in 1977 was like an electric shock for cultural conservatives. a daring inside out building with its guts on show and weird caterpillar escalators crawling up its facade. these two self—confessed bad boys we re these two self—confessed bad boys were behind its creation. unknown back then, respected pillars of society today. they hadn't expected their design to beat the 680 proposals and when it did a steep learning curve awaited. we were very naive, young kids out of school both of us without work but as very naive people, we didn't realise how complicated it was. had we realised i doubt we would have done the competition. it was a miracle. we had court cases, everybody hated it. it was only when it opened and people started to line up and come in and the figures were fantastic, it chang

the glass high-rise are the first we've seen of the building proposed by famed italian architect renzo piano. the skyscraper is one of nine new buildings planned for the transbay district. that place is going to look completely different in a few years. piano also built the california academy of science building and golden gate park. the city planning department is going to get a look at piano's proposal on thursday. >>> get ready your pg&e bill is about to go up again. why the utilities says the increase will actually be a good thing. >>> also we have some new details emerging about the next iphone and there could be a huge change from the current model. >>> taking a live look outside from our exploratorium camera, we have a little bit of peach tingeing the skies there. tingeing the skies there. we're keeping weath look at all that dinner for 4 and before you say but denny's, those 2 strips of bacon, 2 eggs and 2 fluffy pancakes are clearly breakfast. we say: at 4 dollars does it really matter? denny's $4 all day, everyday value slam. part of the 2468 value menu. >>> we're back at 6:44 and