The new building architecture was being adopted for railway stations, markets, factories, glass-roofed buildings, and halls with the use of iron due to its qualities such as lightweight and strong. The first building in Paris with metalwork was the central market building in Paris, Les Halles it was constructed by Victor Baltard and Felix Callet in 1853. The industrial revolution in Europe in the nineteenth century made cast iron a popular building material. The uniqueness of the Eiffel tower design is the exposed iron latticework that fascinates artists. The 300m high tower weighs 7000 tons and has a base of four pylons with a tower above it that tapers upward. The design of the Eiffel tower structure by structural engineer Alexander Gustave Eiffel was unanimously selected out of 700 proposals. Stephen proposed many decorations, such as stonework pedestals on the legs, arches in the lowest level that link the columns, glass-walled halls to host restaurants and shopping arcades on every level.
In order to decorate the metallic structure and make it more acceptable to the public, the chief engineers hired architect Stephen Sauvestre. The structure of the Eiffel tower was conceived in Eiffel’s metal structure business company in 1884 Emile Nouguier and Maurice Koechlin had an idea of a large tower similar to a large pylon.
Even though it is not the tallest building in the world anymore, the unique art of the tower attracts tourists from all over the world and is a Paris signpost. The tower was the tallest building in the world and build as a landmark of Paris on the world map for the International Exhibition of Paris in 1889 to commemorate the centenary of the French Revolution. Eiffel tower is the tallest building in Paris and a landmark monument in Paris the capital of France.
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