The Pompidou Center’s Bright New Future
17 July 2025
Paris’s Eiffel Tower may be its tallest monument, but the Marais neighborhood’s Pompidou Center has become just as iconic. Now set to close in September 2025 for extensive renovations, the revolutionary building at the edge of the Marais will reemerge in 2030 with a new vision for art, sustainability, and urban living. To 56Paris founder Kerstin Bachmann, the Pompidou holds special meaning. On her very first trip to Paris as a teenager in the early 1980s