The Pompidou Centre and Paris’s best views | Letter

Many Parisians may say the Pompidou Centre provides the best view of the city because it is the only spot where visitors don’t have to look at it, writes Dr Alan Baker – but the same was once said of the Eiffel Tower
The Pompidou Centre, opened in 1977, is to be closed in 2023 for four years of renovation work. Your report on this (26 January) says that the building’s radical design, “with its inner workings on the outside”, was and remains controversial, with Paris