Eiffel Tower, Paris
In 1887, the Eiffel Tower was not yet finished, but it already had its red color which it will keep until 1906. In 1887, the Eiffel Tower was not yet finished, but it already had its red color which it will keep until 1906
The Tower has been re-painted 19 times since its initial construction, an average of once every seven years. It has changed colour several times, passing from red-brown to yellow-ochre, then to chestnut brown and finally to the bronze of today, slightly shaded off towards the top to ensure that the colour is perceived to be the same all the way up as it stands against the Paris sky.
In 1936, French engineer André Basdevant proposed an ambitious project to make the second floor of the Eiffel Tower accessible by car. The idea: the construction of two helical concrete ramps on each side of the monument. An unusual project for the Eiffel Tower which was eventually abandoned!
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
Statue of Liberty, New York City
The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France to the United States, already looked great in its Parisian construction workshop in 1884, two years before its inauguration in New York
Manhattan Bridge, March 23, 1909
Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro
Manhattan Bridge, New York City
Sydney Opera House
Gateway Arch, St. Louis
Tower Bridge, London
Space Needle, Seattle
Members of the Boulder City Consulting Board and other officials standing in a section of pipe over the Hoover Dam, 1935
