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The Eiffel Tower is a puddle iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Built in 1889, it has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world.
Named after its designer, Gustave Eiffel.
Paris, France.
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A sparkly Eiffel Tower, the French have wonderful style - I simply could not imagine Big Ben to be covered in such wonderous lights! See a video fo the flashing tower here:
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Learn more about the Eiffel Tower on Wikipedia.
This is a modification of LEGO Architecture set 21019 Eiffel Tower. It is a great scale for Micropolis, so I placed the model on a 1/4 block baseplate and added some water features to the landscape below the tower. Ref: D1564-090
Monschau, Eiffel. This normally very busy and crowded town was nearly deserted on a chilly day in June.
Apart from the four legs the Eiffel Tower puts me in mind of the Martians from 'War of the Worlds' - the proper, novel version, not either of the horrible movies. The lense flare was a complete accident, but I love the effect.
Not long after we arrived at the Eiffel Tower it was invaded by schoolchildren, many of whom clogged and blocked the various passageways and staircases. These children occasionally tried to spit off the tower or onto the decks. Hopefully they later overloaded a lift and caused a lengthy, fatal plummet.
The Eiffel tower at night is a striking sight. Flickering lights fitted during the Millenium were so popular they have been retained
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11.03.12
Héloïse Siaud pour www.theartchemists.com
Live report : www.theartchemists.com/index.php?option=com_content&v...
A few different versions of this amazing architectural marvel. You have to see it to believe it.
Put it on Vimeo (Thanks Al) - looks better than on YouTube!
La Torre Eiffel (Tour Eiffel, en francés), inicialmente nombrada torre de 330 metros (tour de 330 mètres), es una estructura de hierro pudelado diseñada por el ingeniero francés Gustave Eiffel y sus colaboradores para la Exposición universal de 1889 en París.
Situada en el extremo del Campo de Marte a la orilla del río Sena, este monumento parisino, símbolo de Francia y su capital, fue el noveno lugar más visitado del país en 2006 y el monumento más visitado del mundo con 6.893.000 de visitantes en 2007.2 Con una altura de 300 metros, prolongada más tarde con una antena a 324 metros, la Torre Eiffel fue la estructura más elevada del mundo durante más de 40 años, hasta que la superó el edificio Chrysler, de Nueva York, en 1930.
Fue construida en dos años, dos meses y cinco días en controversia con los artistas de la época, que la veían como un monstruo de hierro.3 Inicialmente utilizada para pruebas del ejército con antenas de comunicación,4 hoy sirve, además de atractivo turístico, como emisora de programas radiofónicos y televisivos.
Un buen espectáculo
The Eiffel Tower is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the Seine River in Paris.
Named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, the Eiffel Tower is the tallest building in Paris. More than 200,000,000 have visited the tower since its construction in 1889, including 6,719,200 in 2006, making it the most visited paid monument in the world. Including the 24 m (79 ft) antenna, the structure is 325 m (1,063 ft) high.
i didn't really get an interesting shot of the eiffel tower so i played around a bit...
did ya notice the sepia trend?? :)
Designed by Gustave Eiffel in 1889 for the Worlds Fair, the Eiffel Tower is perhaps the most recognizable structure in the world.
When the Eiffel Tower was first constructed in 1889, many in the artistic community of Paris signed petitions against “…the useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower.” Nature lovers worried it would disrupt the flight of birds over Paris. People claimed it could not be completed on time, or within its budget of 1.5 million dollars. Despite these early grumblings, people flocked to ride the elevator nine hundred feet up to the third level observation platform. From the platform visitors could marvel at the uninterrupted vistas of Paris from every direction. In fact, so many people visited the Eiffel Tower during its first year almost all its construction costs were covered by ticket sales. Today the Eiffel Tower stands as one of the most famous landmarks of France, attracting tourists from all over the world.
1889 World's Fair
The city of Paris held a competition in 1887, looking for designs for a temporary monument that would be unveiled during the 1889 Worlds Fair. The winning designer, Gustave Eiffel, designed a huge iron latticework tower as a tribute to the French Revolution. Originally the tower was slated to stand for only twenty years. Part of the rules of the design contest stated the structure could be taken down easily. However, by the twenty-year mark, in 1909, the tower was not only popular with tourists; it proved a valuable communication tool for radio broadcasting.
A Modern Marvel
Standing 986 feet tall, the tower is constructed of 18,000 pieces of wrought iron. Every seven years it is repainted. Three different colors are used to help give the tower a uniform look. Darker paint is used on the top, and slightly lighter paint is used on the bottom, to contrast against the lighter sky and darker ground. Because the Eiffel Tower was the tallest structure in the world at the time of its construction, Gustave Eiffel put careful consideration into how it would hold up to gusty winds. He designed the tower with open latticework of wrought iron, allowing winds to blow through the tower, rather than against it. This plan worked so well that even during the strongest winds the tower never sways more than four and half inches.
A National Symbol
By WWII, national pride in the monument that was once hailed as an eyesore was so great that when Paris fell to the Nazis, French rebels cut the cables to the elevator of the tower so Hitler would have to climb the stairs. When the Nazis hung their swastika flag from its summit, a determined Frenchman climbed up the tower and replaced it with the French flag. Despite poor acceptance during its first few years, the Eiffel Tower has been embraced by French citizens, and stands as one of the most recognizable structures in the world.
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