120 years of Eiffel Tower
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- HKI
Serero Architects unveils its design for the extension of the Eiffel Tower top floor.
- lando0
that's never going to happen
- Corvo0
Why would anyone want to mess with someone else's iconic design/work? There's some serious ego misplacement in this project, I believe.
- jaylarson0
i like the idea. given i've never been to paris, but i'd like to see it. are there stairs all the way to the top too?
- Jnr_Madison0
"95% want to visit the top floor"
Mass suicide?
- ian0
- pr20
ugly
- mg330
It's very stupid looking and seems incredibly impossible. It just looks ugly ugly ugly.
- planet010
how about adding escalators on the pyramids while we are at it. I mean, really, that's a lot of stairs.
- WeAreDAG0
It's pretty fantastic.
- detritus0
I really like it.
The initial reaction to the construction of the Eiffel Tower mirrors fairly acutely some of the negative reactions here.
- Oh, and where's my gold star for front-paging this over a week ago?
http://www.qbn.com/p…detritus - not mine. I just think it shouldn't be "added".Corvo
- Oh, and where's my gold star for front-paging this over a week ago?
- Mimio0
I like it too. Kind of references the city's Art Nouveau era public spaces too.(metro entrances, etc.)
- Fariska0
Apart the beautiful/ugly thing. the main question is why?
- Why not?detritus
- To inject a little life into the city that is know as Paris.WeAreDAG
- exactly, why not.WeAreDAG
- bingosikma
- What if they were about to add some glossy tubes in the Tower of London? Would that be an injection of life too?Corvo
- I think the Tower of London is horrifically awful Tat, so I'd relish a contemporary amendment.detritus
- Oops. I meant Tower Bridge.
Silly me. er.. a castle? that's different. Still - the British Museum is a good proxy..detritus - ..and the Norman Foster dome amendment is fucking gorgeous - so yeah - rewrite, redo.detritus
- Sorry - I meant Tower Bridge too. And it's not awful.Corvo
- From far off, I quite enjoy it, I guess - but up close it's ridiculous over-ornate tat.
IMO, obviously.detritus - well the fact that is has a certain bygone "style" is no reason to alter it. Or will you fix the eyes of Picasso's girls in 2020?Corvo
- 2020?Corvo
- It was made in the late 1900s to the template of a bygone era - THAT's why I dislike it. It started off fake.detritus
- Moment of stupidity - built in the late '19th century'.detritus
- hmm - but "fake" wasn't regarded false at that time - isn't that what the victs and the arts&crafts were all about?Corvo
- Like William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites? Art Nouveau has much of that "fake" spirit.Corvo
- That's fine for interior design - you can always paint over it! Not sure if wot u say applies to A&C tho - surely the opposite?detritus
- (apologies for word contraction there, I should've just spilled over to another note!)detritus
- didn't A&C aimed to fake/find an original "anglo-saxon" spirit? Sigurd, typefaces, "patterns" like it w/ "rescued"?Corvo
- YAYPaul0
I've been up it once, never again, new fangled floor or not.
FALCOR!!!!!
- Corvo0
You seem to be missing the point - the Eiffel Tower was designed by Eiffel (go figure) and his an emblem of not just a city or country but also a period in european history. I don't think anyone else should "re-design" it. It's not polite even, to mess with other people's work.
- morilla0
what a horrible idea.
- sikma0
"There's some serious ego misplacement in this project, I believe."
you hit the nail on the head