Paris’s most famous monument is never exactly the same height twice. Conceived in 1884 as the Tour de 300 mètres, the iron lattice was engineered by Gustave Eiffel’s team to reach a record-breaking ...
Two of his senior engineers, Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, drafted the first version in 1884. At first, Eiffel wasn’t impressed by their sketches—he thought they looked too plain. But once ...
The world famous tourist hotspot in Paris, the Eiffel Tower, has been shut since October 2, 2025, amid nationwide strike. As demonstrators streamed from Place d’Italie toward the Eiffel Tower, its ...