Tuesday, April 10, 2007


This is the Eiffel tower in Paris (my hometown !!)
I don't really know if we can considered this tower as a skyscraper even though..
Anyway, the tower project was a bold extension of this principle up to a height of 300 metres - equivalent to the symbolic figure of 1000 feet. On September 18th, 1884 Eiffel registered a patent "for a new configuration allowing the construction of metal supports and pylons capable of exceeding a height of 300 metres".
So it's maybe enough high to be a skyscraper, isn't it ?

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