Centre Georges Pompideau was written in response to a challenge to represent an architectural work through music with a time limit of one minute.

The chosen structure, the Centre Georges Pompideau in France, is a stunning architectural work, standing in stark contrast to everything surrounding it. The most obvious feature of the building is the complex grid of pipes that architects usually take great pains to hide, but which are proudly displayed on the Centre Georges Pompidou. Another unique feature of the building is that in order to enter it one must take an escalator that wraps around the outside of the building to the top floor, passing through the maze of pipes.

The music in the piece strives to capture the first impressions of a tourist as they regard the building from afar and then travel up the escalator into the building. The regular and constant rhythm of the music mirrors the rapid patterning of the outside of the building and the rising lines in the tuba, trombone, and trumpet represent the rising escalator. The goal of the piece is to create an aural space that is similar to the architectural space created by the Centre Georges Pompidou itself.