Essay On Eiffel Tower

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Eiffel tower and Arch of Triumph

In the old days Paris was known to be the capital of culture where many of the famous authors went for their higher education. In addition to that, the French people had great interests in building and architecture. Here are two of the best monuments that we can talk about today, Eiffel tower and Arch of Triumph.

Eiffel Tower, they started building it in 1887 and finished it in 1889 , its located in Paris on the Champ de Mars to be the entrance arch to the World's Fair in 1889 , it was built and designed by the company of the engineer Gustave Eiffel.The tower looked like a huge arch of steel or iron, with 324 meters tall or ‘1,063 ft’. The medium that used to build this huge tower is iron lattice and some concrete on the bottom (the two bottom legs of the Eiffel tower).

There are no connections between this tower and earlier art history because when building the Eiffel tower they used new ways and techniques which were not familiar on that time. Eiffel tower was built by new techniques in that time; they started building with a very wide base and ended the tower in a summit, which made the surface of contact between the tower and the wind reduced.

Eiffel tower is absolutely dark brown when seen from ground, however its color gradually turns lighter as u climb up, until it becomes yellow at the very top.

Many changes have happened on Eiffel tower’s structure before its opening, one original lift in Eiffel tower has been replaced with a smaller electric one, also there was a decorative arcade around the first level of the tower that was removed.

17 the tower represents stylized style.

I think that Eiffel tower is one of its kind comparing to other towers all over the world beca...

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...milarities, we can say both of them located in Paris, France. Both are structures and both of them include arches in their structure. Also they have the same positive effects on tourism in France. They also can be two of the most famous monuments in the world.

moving on to the differences, Eiffel tower is mostly made of iron, but the Arch of Triumph made of stones. Also as we said in the previous paragraphs Eiffel tower represents or remind us of the beauty of Paris, on the other hand the Arch remind us of wars and battles that happened in the past.

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Milner,J.(2000).Art war & revolution in France. U.S: Yale university.

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