Archive for March, 2008
↓ Sponsored LinksDrafting is Like Riding a Horse
1 Comment | March 26th, 2008
Anyone with both experience in riding a horse and drafting? Is it “Like riding a horse”, am not too sure about the riding part, but it sounds as if they’re sending the wrong message: “Drafting is like riding a horse in your bikini.”.
Serero Architects Win Eiffel Tower Anniversary Competition
1 Comment | March 23rd, 2008
Image Source: Serero Architects
This is last week’s news, and I find it rather interesting, Paris-based Serero Architects won an open competition for the redesign of Eiffel Tower’s public reception. The deck would be temporary bolted to the slab without any new support structure, thus expanding the usable floor area from 280m square to 580m square.
According to the official announcement:
Since its creation the amount of visitors coming to reach its top has increased to reach its limit capacity. 6.5 millions People wait between 35 minutes to 1H10 to reach the elevators. The floor area of each level decreases with the height because of the tower geometry resulting in very long waiting lines and crowd management problems.
In celebration of the 120th birthday of the tower, the Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel decided to restructure the public reception and access areas of the tower. The proposal of SERERO Architects aims to create a temporary horizontal extension of the third floor of the tower in order to increase the quality of the access of the public as well as experiencing the fantastic 360 degrees sight of Paris.
WThe Eiffel Tower was supposedly to be a temporary structure meant to be taken down in the future, and when they said a temporary platform I guess it is temporary, or maybe it is not. Looks like a flower to me. Anyway, there’s no better way to celebrate the 120th anniversary of a landmark than putting an amazing party hat on it.
Image Source: Serero Architects
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