Impressionism, Iron Architecture ·
chronological order 9
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.
