Eiffel Tower, Paris
The modern world’s most celebrated architectural monument, the Eiffel Tower is neither a building nor a utilitarian object.
- Eiffel Tower, Paris
Its purpose was symbolic: it was designed to advertise and to be the central feature of the Paris World Exposition of 1889 on the Champs de Mars. It remained, at 300 m (1000 ft), the world’s tallest structure until the Empire State Building was completed in New York in 1929. It was constructed from 12,000 separate prefabricated iron pieces and was held together by 2.5 million rivets. It took just over four years to fabricate and some 3000 drawings depicted its 29 sections.
- Eiffel Tower At Night
Nov 3rd, 2008 at 9:43 pm
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