If you're looking for a city packed full of boutique hotels, Paris must surely come near the top of your list.
The best thing about this kind of accommodation is that it often utilises innovation in terms of architecture or design, complemented with works of art.
It's safe to assume that as someone staying in this kind of establishment, art and architecture are probably very important to you.
Luckily, if you're staying in the French capital, you'll be surrounded by buildings and spaces that have been created by world-renowned artists and engineers with the same attention to aesthetic details as you.
Centre Georges Pompidou An alien looking building, even when compared to the more outlandish boutique hotels Paris has to offer, the Pompidou Centre (as it's known in English) is pretty much an inside out building, and one of the most impressive landmarks of architectural post-modernism in the world.
The building houses several different organisations and is located in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement - making it incredibly easy to reach via public transport, no matter where you've booked your boutique hotels.
Paris's most unusual public landmark was built by an international team of architects and engineers following an architectural design competition.
Putting a Brave Face on It The high concept of the Pompidou centre saw the building team make the innovative, and now iconic, choice to place the internal utilities components on the outside of the building in coloured ducts.
Originally, this system was blue ducts for airflow, green for fluids, yellow for electricity cables and red for movement (lifts) or safety (fire extinguishers).
The chief concept was 'movement and flow' - maximising the functional flow and movement inside the building and freeing up the internal spaces by putting the ducts and other functional facilities on the outside of the structure.
Form and function throughout the design - and all within easy distance of your boutique hotels, Paris.
It's What's Inside that Counts Not only is the Pompidou Centre an architectural marvel, it's also home to some of the best attractions in Paris.
One of these is, most notably, the Musée National d'Art Moderne - the second largest collection of modern art in the world.
Originally created in 1947, the gallery moved to the Pompidou Centre in 1977, and today contains more than 70,000 works.
A part of the collection is on display to the public at any one time in the 14,000 square metres of the Pompidou centre, and is regularly rotated in order to give visitors a sample of the variety and depth of the collection.
The best thing about this kind of accommodation is that it often utilises innovation in terms of architecture or design, complemented with works of art.
It's safe to assume that as someone staying in this kind of establishment, art and architecture are probably very important to you.
Luckily, if you're staying in the French capital, you'll be surrounded by buildings and spaces that have been created by world-renowned artists and engineers with the same attention to aesthetic details as you.
Centre Georges Pompidou An alien looking building, even when compared to the more outlandish boutique hotels Paris has to offer, the Pompidou Centre (as it's known in English) is pretty much an inside out building, and one of the most impressive landmarks of architectural post-modernism in the world.
The building houses several different organisations and is located in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement - making it incredibly easy to reach via public transport, no matter where you've booked your boutique hotels.
Paris's most unusual public landmark was built by an international team of architects and engineers following an architectural design competition.
Putting a Brave Face on It The high concept of the Pompidou centre saw the building team make the innovative, and now iconic, choice to place the internal utilities components on the outside of the building in coloured ducts.
Originally, this system was blue ducts for airflow, green for fluids, yellow for electricity cables and red for movement (lifts) or safety (fire extinguishers).
The chief concept was 'movement and flow' - maximising the functional flow and movement inside the building and freeing up the internal spaces by putting the ducts and other functional facilities on the outside of the structure.
Form and function throughout the design - and all within easy distance of your boutique hotels, Paris.
It's What's Inside that Counts Not only is the Pompidou Centre an architectural marvel, it's also home to some of the best attractions in Paris.
One of these is, most notably, the Musée National d'Art Moderne - the second largest collection of modern art in the world.
Originally created in 1947, the gallery moved to the Pompidou Centre in 1977, and today contains more than 70,000 works.
A part of the collection is on display to the public at any one time in the 14,000 square metres of the Pompidou centre, and is regularly rotated in order to give visitors a sample of the variety and depth of the collection.