Serero Architects Win Eiffel Tower Anniversary Competition
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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.
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French Vision of the Year 2000
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Found this really interesting article from Arch*Idea, These illustration speaks volume of the way a French guy in the year 1910 imagined our human civilization in the year 2000. Well, we’re now almost 100 years from 1910 but these prediction of his still appears too futuristic for our time.
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I wonder, what would happen to building regulations for fire escape stairs if fire fighters have the ability to fly? Then again, if people can fly, why do we still need fire escape stairs, people could just fly out of their building when ever there is a fire, right? Visit Utopie for more images
The world is evolving in a very slow pace, probably due to the lack of wars. Don’t get me wrong, wars are evil and lots of human lives are lost but only through wars new invention are invented, discovered and leap frog mankind to the next level.
During World War Two, more than half of the world’s resources are diverted into funding the war, these new inventions that were meant to build better war machines and win the war eventually make way into our daily lives.
Jet Engines and Rockets by the Nazis, Radar by the British, nuclear energy by the Americans, biological warfare which leads to better medicine by the Japanese, and lots more, subsequently the Cold War gave us the very first man made satellite and not to mention the Internet, can you imagine living in a world without the Internet?
The USSR’s launch of Sputnik spurred the United States to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as ARPA, in February 1958 to regain a technological lead.[1][2] ARPA created the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) program, which had networked country-wide radar systems together for the first time. J. C. R. Licklider was selected to head the IPTO, and saw universal networking as a potential unifying human revolution. – Wikipedia
We need another Cold War. China – America? nah, China is 100 years behind and will be 100 years behind forever in term of technology and science if thinking aloud is a crime in Communist China.
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