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.
Image Source: Serero Architects
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Little Paris in China
This may sound like a Chinese bashing blog but I just could not help myself, first was the fake goods which is somewhat digestible but to copy something that big and prominent is simply absurd, it reminds me of the fake Disneyland.
Paris is the city of love and light, and no amount of money can change or duplicate the same feeling or atmosphere. What I don’t understand is why and how could the local government approve such projects? China may be the only surviving ancient civilization in the world with the only surviving ancient language still used in today’s modern world, but to me China is just 20 years old, thanks to Mao ZheDong with his great leap forward and the cultural revolution, it appears that the Chinese in China lack of an identity and are desperately in search for one. Here is an interesting article – Re-creating European cities, China’s latest housing trend by Ariana Eunjung Cha.
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These photos were taken in Tianducheng, a residential community built in on the outskirts of Hangzhou in eastern China. Apparently there’s only 2,000 people living there now, which seems rather sparsely populated for what they must be hoping will be a tourist attraction.
More Images at Reuters – Little Paris in China
Here is a must watch video – China Chateau… I mean Château de Versailles, France.
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