PARIS | Eiffel Tower | 1,063' Pinnacle / 984' Roof | 3 FLOORS | 1889
 

The following shots were taken last Sunday, Jan 14th.
Please post your comments and your own photos !

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That one is not by me (published in the daily Le Monde) :

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DUCLOS ALEXIS/GAMMA

is it all steel?

Iron.
The construction was fast. It started in January 1887 and was finished on March 31, 1889.

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^Photo by eu, Jan 18, 2007.

The following are by me :

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^With the Tour Montparnasse in the back

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Still one of the coolest structures ever made by man. You gotta love the Eiffel Tower.

Just imagine what it must have been like when that thing opened in 1889. Amazing. It stood as the world's tallest structure for 41 years and was only beaten by the Chrysler Building.

The Eiffel Tower in 1937 :

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Nice pics
 

I like that tower much. The design is special It would be used for telecommunications in a fair and afterwards demolished, but Good sakes it is still there. Great pics. Maybe it is not more the tallest in world for years anymore, but in my oppnion the most famous one, more than Toronto, Burj Dubai, 101 Taipei, old WTC and others. :notacrook:

That last B&W picture must be older then the other ones, look at the roof of the arcade on the first level. It's a series of arches. In the earlier pictures it's just a level roof. That last picture must be from before the 1937 exposition.

I've seen the Eiffel Tower twice and both times it blew me away, although the last time I saw it (April 2006) I had a better appreciation of me. It's a spectactular structure. Really one of a kind.

Btw, I remember seeing a picture book back in grade 4 of all the other designs submitted for that spot, some of them were quite extraordinary. Does anyone know if there is a site with the other submitted designs?

Good observation.

I've often wondered why the first level was modified. The older style was good enough. If the the change occured today, it would be considered disrespectful.

The first level used to be laboratories for gravity oriented experiments, I believe.


If there is any case against NIMBYism in the world, this is it. EVERYONE hated this sucker when it was built, and today it is impossible to think of Paris without thinking 'Eiffel Tower.'

Right, but here was the trick : the structure was supposed to be temporary...

The fantastic "Palais des Machines", however, was indeed demolished.

Oct 7

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Wow it was built a heck of a long time ago. Hmm, The eiffel tower is like a miniature version of the X SEED 400.

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Supposedly Hitler loathed the Eiffel Tower and planned to have it demolished during the Nazi occupation of France, though his top deputy in Paris liked it, and never let the plans go through.

That was a depressing post.
Let's enjoy the photos of a much happier time :

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An impressive looking thing, particularly in those up close photos. Hopefully I'll get to go visit it sometime, and up it.

And soon it will get to share the skyline with a few others in the next few years.

:D

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The view from the top [sorry it was overcast]

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Looking down, while walking up to the second level

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photos just don't give the true scale of the thing. When you're right next to it, you realise that it is immense in scale.