Outdoor sculpture garden behid the Pompidou Center. The Centre Georges Pompidou, also known as the Centre Beaubourg, was built in the mid-1970s and inaugurated in 1977. British architect Richard Rogers and Italian architect Renzo Piano put the "insides" of the building on the outside. Attracting around 25,000 visitors a day, the Pompidou Center is also home to the National Museum of Modern Art, a large public library, a restaurant, and a new internet caf矇. Paris, France.