The current Norman Foster exhibition at the Pompidou Centre feels significant, not only for its size and firsts (biggest by area, number of projects, drawings never seen, all that), but for the fact Foster designed as well as headlines it. Reason enough to take a train to Paris. That, and the joy of a trip to the Pompidou.

Two French projects are celebrated from the off. On the front of the Pompidou Centre, there’s a giant photograph by Edmund Sumner of Marseille’s silver pavilion; then, at the entrance to the galleries, a wall-sized Daniel Jamme/Eiffage print of the Millau Viaduct.

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