Eiffel Tower is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside Seine River in Paris. It is the tallest structure in Paris and one of the most acclaimed symbols in the world. Eiffel Tower is named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, and it is a leading tourist destination.
The tower stands 986 ft. high, which is about 75 stories. Including the antenna, Eiffel tower height is 1058 ft that is about 81 stories. During its construction in 1889, the tower was the tallest structure in the world, a title it registered until 1930, when New York City’s Chrysler Building was completed. It is also popular among architects for being one of the few tall structures in the world that is perfectly vertical.
The maintenance of the tower includes applying 50 tones of three graded tones of paint every seven years for protection from rusting. Occasionally, the color of the paint is changed. Currently, the tower is painted s shade of brown. On the first floor, there are corresponding consoles hosting a poll for the color to use for a future session of painting.
The structure was built between 1887 and 1889 as the entrance arch for the Exposition Universelle, a World’s Fair indicating the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. The tower was inaugurated on the 31st of March 1889 and opened on the 6th of May.
Originally, the Eiffel tower had permit for the tower to stand for 20 years, more than recouping his expenses, but as it later proved valuable for communication purposes, it was acknowledged to stay after the expiry of the permit. The military used it to dispatch Parisian taxis to the front line of the Marne, and it consequently became a victory image of that battle. It was also used to catch the infamous “Mata Hari”, and after this, its demolition became unthinkable to the French populace.
The tower has two restaurants: Altitude 95, on the first floor, and the Jules Verne, a high-priced gourmet restaurant on the second floor, with a private elevator.
Images of the tower have long been in the public domain. Nevertheless, in 2003 SNTE installed a new lighting display on the tower. The effect was to put any nighttime image of the tower under copyright. Thus, it was no longer legal to publish simultaneous photographs of the tower at night without permission. In contemporary decision, the Court of Cassation ordered that copyright could not be claimed over images including a copyrighted building if the photograph surround or include a larger area. This seems to indicate that SNTE cannot claim copyright on photographs of Paris incorporating the lit tower.
Today it is widely considered as one of the most striking pieces of structural art in the world.
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