At Centre
Pompidou, people with disabilities who cannot walk stairs must journey very
long distances to reach one elevator that only reaches the main, first and
basement floors.
Another
elevator, a very long stroll away, serves the upper floor galleries 5 and
6.
On the
opposite side of the more than one million square foot building, elevators
reach only galleries 3 and 4.
The idea of
forcing folks to go on tour of the building to reach elevators might have
seemed cool to the architects.
Or maybe
they were trying to promote fitness.
But it is a
disaster for folks who push their own wheelchairs, are slow walkers, have
respiratory issues or just plain are pushing 60 husbands pushing their wife's
manual wheelchair all over creation -- not to see world class art -- but to
just go from one floor to the other.
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