Serero Architects Win Eiffel Tower Anniversary Competition

23 March 2008 | Category: Architecture Matters
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Serero Architects Win Eiffel Tower Anniversary Competition
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.

Serero Architects Win Eiffel Tower Anniversary Competition
Image Source: Serero Architects

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  1. Sierra
    on April 7th, 2009
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    I think this makes the Eiffel Tower look like CRAP! It’s looks like the tower in seattle except with a different bottom. I mean come on! Not only are you taking away from the classic, romantic feel of the Eiffel Tower; But you’ve made the choice to make it look like a UFO too?

    I realize this could help with crowd control among other things; However, did you think of whether or not it would be worth it? Would people even go visit this architectual beauty if it had a giant clover on it?

    By the way, it IS in fact a clover! Four leaves and everything! You may as well light up the tower with nothing but green lights and have a banner across that says ‘Paris for St. Patricks Day!’. I’ve wanted to go to Paris since i was five years old just to see and feel the power this wonderful landmark gives off.

    If you did this,or whom ever is in charge of it did this, It would lose all meaning to me. all of its beauty. Talk about heartbreaking! Count me out! If i hear of this project proceeding or read about it, you better believe i’ll be there with a petition sign. If i’m not its because i’ve just had a heart attack at hearing the news.

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