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Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was born in France, in the Côte-d'Or, the first child of Catherine-Mélanie (née Moneuse) and Alexandre Bonickhausen dit Eiffel. [6] He was a descendant of Marguerite Frédérique (née Lideriz) and Jean-René Bönickhausen, who had emigrated from the German town of Marmagen and settled in Paris at the beginning of the 19th century. [7]
A competition to build what was simply called "A tower of three hundred meters" with a base one hundred meters wide, was announced in 1886. It was won by the construction firm of Gustave Eiffel, which had recently built the iron frame of the Statue of Liberty. The Eiffel firm had advance knowledge of the project and, beginning in 1884, had ...
The Eiffel Tower (/ ˈ aɪ f əl / ⓘ EYE-fəl; French: Tour Eiffel [tuʁ ɛfɛl] ⓘ) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France.It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889.
Built as part of the Paris Exposition (aka the World's Fair), more than 100 artists submitted designs, but the Eiffel et Compagnie architecture firm won. 2. Gustave Eiffel didn't actually design ...
Designer Gustave Eiffel had a small apartment cloistered away in the upper reaches of the tower. In 2016, a second (temporary) apartment was built inside the tower by vacation rental company ...
Eiffel Tower Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) Eiffel (French Eiffel Constructions métalliques ) is part of the Eiffage group and the descendant of the engineering company Société des Établissements Eiffel founded by Gustave Eiffel , designer of the Eiffel Tower .
Maria Pia Bridge (in Portuguese Ponte de D. Maria Pia, commonly known as Ponte de Dona Maria Pia) is a railway bridge built in 1877 and attributed to Gustave Eiffel.It is situated between the Portuguese Northern municipalities of Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia.
March 31 – Eiffel Tower in Paris, designed by Gustave Eiffel. [1] At 300 m, its height exceeds the previous tallest structure in the world by 130 m. April 10 – A star is placed on the Mole Antonelliana in Turin , Italy , designed by Alessandro Antonelli , bringing the building's total height to 167.5 m (550 ft), making it the tallest brick ...