Architecture
Eiffel Tower
Gustave Eiffel, 1889
Show the style
Impressionism, Iron Architecture · chronological order 9
Where to see it
Champ de Mars
Paris · France
A 330-metre tower of puddled iron built by Gustave Eiffel and his team (Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier worked out the shape) between 1887 and 1889 for the Paris Universal Exhibition, held for the centenary of the Revolution. The plan was to take it down after twenty years, but its usefulness as a wireless telegraphy aerial during the First World War saved it. It was the tallest building in the world for 41 years, until New York’s Chrysler Building in 1930.