Old, modern...

My kids kindly offered me a massage session as a Christmas gift. I made use of it this week. (A rather tough session, executed by a Polish 100 kg lady, but I felt fine - afterwards.) It took place in this street, an old rather typical Paris street, full of "boutiques", art galleries and with a number of historical references.

When walking to the end of the street, you find the Pompdou Center. I actually like both, the old and the modern - and the Center is full of visit-worth things. You have to create something new and possibly give future generations some traces of our capacity to create. Of course, I don't know what was destroyed. The Center was built between 1971 and 1977 and I moved to Paris when the job was already ongoing. How to integrate new buildings in an exisiting environment is not an easy matter. No more skyscrapers are built inside Paris. The modern business centers are built around the city, in more or less distant suburbs. Of course this may create other problems... I will not try to handle them all in today's contribution.