Le Centre Pompidou
The construction of The Pompidou Center cost 58,800,000 Euros. Together in 1971, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, also with Ove Arup & Partners, won a competition for an "information, entertainment and cultural center". The building was design and completely built in six years. It is located in Paris, France, and has a modern art museum, industrial design center, reference library, children's library and art center, audio-visual research center, and restaurants. The Pompidou Center is 46m tall.
L'Opéra Garnier
The very famous love story "The Phantom of the Opera" was based on the basement of The Opera House because of the fact that it kept flooding. Charles Garnier is the architect of the famous Opera House. The Garner Opera House's construction started on August 1861 and inaugurated on January 5, 1875. The Opera house took fourteen years to build, and it was one of the one-hundred-seventy-one proposals sent in to a competition, and won the competition. It cost 36,010,571.04 French Francs. It is fifty-six meters high, and one-hundred-fifty-four . nine meters long.
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