BUILDING REQUEST: Phare du Monde, Paris, France

[Luc de Lys]

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BUILDING REQUEST FORM
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Reminder: Make it (Bold)
Official sources:
Unofficial sources: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/pleasure-tower-half-mile-high/, https://www.pinterest.com/pin/563653709588072943/, https://atomicscout.wordpress.com/2013/12/04/the-pleasure-tower-that-never-was/, http://www.citymetric.com/skylines/6-terrible-construction-projects-were-kind-glad-were-never-built-654, https://www.historyrundown.com/tag/soviet-union/, https://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/green-architecture/1937-pleasure-tower-shows-how-devoted-we-were-and-are-cars/, http://www.pss-archi.eu/forum/viewtopic.php?id=33404
Building Name: Phare du Monde (en : Lighthouse of the World)
Native Name:
Other Names: Pleasure Tower Half Mile High, according to an english advertisement
Street Address: Never clearly defined
City: Paris
Postal Code: 75000
State/Province: Île-de-France
Country: France
Official Building Website URL:
Wikipedia.org URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phare_du_Monde
Skyscrapers.com (Emporis.com) URL:
CTBUH.org URL :
Structurae.de URL:
• Architect: Eugène Freyssinet
Interesting Facts/Records (in own words):
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• Floor-to-floor height:
Coordinates (with decimal fraction): Never clearly defined

Heights--
PLEASE PROVIDE SOURCES FOR HEIGHTS, OTHERWISE WE WILL ASSUME THEY ARE ESTIMATES AND HEIGHTS NOT BE SHOWN.
Reminder: (Use Meters)
- antenna: 701 m
- spire:
- roof:
- top floor:
- other heights:

Current Building Status (Built, Proposed, Cancelled, Destroyed, etc...): Vision

Construction Dates--
- started:
- finished: 1937 (according to the original plan)
- destroyed:

Above ground floors:
Basement floors:
Gross Floor area:
Unit count:

Structure Type(s):
Building Use(s): Observation tower / Monument (for the 1937's International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life)
Building Style(s): Modern
Building Materials: Concrete