The wrought iron engineering: 300 hundred workers joined together 18,038 pieces of wrought iron using two and a half million rivets. When it was being built, a "Committee of Three Hundred" (one member for each metre of the tower's height) of French artists protested. They feared it would blot out Parisian charm and be left with ‘we shall see stretching like a blot of ink the hateful shadow of the hateful column of bolted sheet metal.’ Photo by ...
more The wrought iron engineering: 300 hundred workers joined together 18,038 pieces of wrought iron using two and a half million rivets. When it was being built, a "Committee of Three Hundred" (one member for each metre of the tower's height) of French artists protested. They feared it would blot out Parisian charm and be left with ‘we shall see stretching like a blot of ink the hateful shadow of the hateful column of bolted sheet metal.’ Photo by Noopur Tiwari.
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