Why there’s such an enormous “Structure” situated in central Paris ?

Some may think that such a building is “awkward” to be in the city center of Paris. Yet to me it's more likely that people just don't want to admit that this form of existence, to some extent, it’s a layer of reflection of the facade and what’s behind the facade. With the Center Pompidou, what has been stripped away are all the concrete walls and barriers, the appearances are unnecessary either, the building needs no “decorations.” The interior of the building is no longer private. In the end, only the most honest and naked structures remain: pipelines, channels, passages and spaces. Therefore, the building became flexible, flexible to activities, to the needs of the people. Even though it looks completely different to the surroundings.
It looks like, the opposite of any other old buildings in Paris.

In the alchemical point of view, everything is one and the same, and in various concepts such as inside and outside, up and down, within and without, the universe and the inner soul, they are not opposite, but relative. What I saw at the Center Pompidou is:

The very self that no longer reappears as we grow older. Most people have more or less, some expectations to themselves and for themselves, but under the conflict between oneself and the reality, we learnt to wrap ourselves up, we’d be covered in the same uniform, have similar looks to each other, we talk and act the same, we learn, we work, we get married and then, we died of course. Throughout the life, we sort of “convince” ourselves that this way of thinking, should and will be common and normal.

"If it is in the universe, it is actually in the inner soul."

When we’re trying to chase those expectations outwards, perhaps we should look inward to seek the most pious self instead; When we’re trying to adapt ourselves to the world, maybe it’s better to try letting the world be ourselves.