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The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch, [5] it is the world's tallest arch [4] and Missouri's tallest accessible structure.
The Gateway Arch, known as the "Gateway to the West," is the tallest structure in Missouri.It was designed by the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and the German-American structural engineer Hannskarl Bandel in 1947 and built between 1963 and October 1965.
The Gateway Arch in St. Louis. One of many notable structures built by the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co. The Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company (originally the Des Moines Bridge and Iron Company), and often referred to as Pitt-Des Moines Steel or PDM was an American steel fabrication company. It operated from 1892 until approximately 2002 ...
St. Louis’ Gateway Arch is part of a nearly 91-acre national park that pays tribute to American history.
St. Louis was home to a cluster of early skyscrapers during the late 19th century. Two of Louis Sullivan's important early skyscrapers stand among a crop of similar office buildings and department stores built up between 1890 and 1915. His Wainwright Building (1891) features strong base-pediment-shaft massing and an insistently vertical pattern ...
Gateway Arch and Old Cathedral. Built in Greek Revival style, the church is noted for its marble altars, a painting of Saint Louis venerating the Crown of Thorns given by Louis XVIII, King of France and Navarre, and an accurate copy of the painting of the Crucifixion by Diego Velázquez installed in the church in the latter half of the ...
St. Louis skyline, seen from across the Mississippi River. One Metropolitan Square, pictured at night, designed by the architects Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum.. The skyline of St. Louis is home to some of the most architecturally significant buildings in the United States, from its eye catching Gateway Arch to its beautiful granite facade, copper roofed One Metropolitan Square.
Gateway Arch. An arch is a curved vertical structure spanning an open space underneath it. [1] Arches may support the load above them, or they may perform a purely decorative role. As a decorative element, the arch dates back to the 4th millennium BC, but structural load-bearing arches became popular only after their adoption by the Ancient ...