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For the very first time in its history, the most iconic landmark in the City of Light is undergoing extensive refurbishments to improve, and beautify, the Eiffel Tower experience.

The far-reaching project, led by SETE, the Eiffel Tower Operating Company ( Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel ), is set to take place over the next 15 years, as the capital prepares to host the 2024 Olympic Games as well as the 2025 World Expo. During this period, the Iron Lady will have a complete makeover from head to toe to be all set for these major events. 2018 is a milestone year for the current large-scale restoration program.

The Gardens: A new walkway to the Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower and Parisian foliage. Photo: Sarah Fauvel

The goal of the garden redesign is to create a peaceful and attractive space, while also ensuring safety, offering a secure spot for rest and contemplation.

Since mid-March, visitors have discovered new pathways and improved landscaping which offers new, unparalleled views of the landmark. The walk guides tourists and locals through the gardens to get to the Eiffel Tower.

Outdoor furniture will complete the décor of the scene. For environmental sustainability, the local flora and fauna will be preserved.

View of the tower just before the East Entry. Photo: Sarah Fauvel

A protective enclosure will also surround this green setting. The main alleys of Refuzniks and Jean Paulhan will be bordered by a metal fence, 10.63 feet high, whose transparency will offer a secured visit as well as an aesthetically attractive view of the new space around the Iron Lady.

View of the tower after the East Entry. Photo: Sarah Fauvel

The glass barriers, allowing for controlled access to the site, will surround the north and south sides of the tower and will blend into the landscape. The exits will also be upgraded to be composed of glass drums and airlock equipment with doors for people with reduced mobility.

An enlivened second floor

The Eiffel Tower surrounded by flowering trees in the springtime. Photo: Sarah Fauvel

The expansive restoration of the second floor, completed at the beginning of April, improves the Eiffel Tower experience with a better welcome.

The whole floor has been entirely redesigned and modernized with new furniture and a major innovation: an interactive digital animation that pays tribute to all major cities worldwide that have hosted the Olympic Games.

The other renovations include a brighter gallery, shops with updated décor, wood flooring and ceilings with a fresh design.

From acoustics to lighting, the efforts to enliven the second-floor space were extensive.

Painting the Iron Lady: the 20th campaign

The project to repaint this architectural masterpiece represents both major technical and human challenges. The workers strip the tower to apply 60 tons of paint that is designed to preserve the structure’s iron and steel. The tower has been entirely repainted every seven years, and it usually takes 20 months to complete the traditional painting.

This 20th campaign to paint the Eiffel Tower will begin in the fall of 2018. It is an important moment in its history, as it turns out to be the most complex painting process since its construction. It will be necessary to remove the old layers of paint on about 10 percent of its surface to create a long-lasting and attractive look.

The “Eiffel Tower Brown” color was specifically designed for the iconic monument, and is now a symbol of the Parisian cityscape. Since 1968, the Iron Lady has been coated with three shades of the emblematic color, the lightest at the top and the darkest at the bottom, to emphasize its slender elegance.

Photo: SETE/ Maud Chazeau

Previously, the Eiffel Tower was repainted in a variety of hues since its creation.

The monument’s original look was a reddish-brown paint in 1889. It then sported a gradation of an orange-yellow color in 1899. Then it was painted a brownish-red color in the 1950s.

The North Elevator upgraded

View from under the magnificent structure. Photo: Sarah Fauvel

The North Elevator, dating from 1964, is undergoing a three-year restoration to enhance performance, efficiency and safety this spring. This process will require great precision and unique know-how from the teams in charge of the work.

The technology improvements will consist of renovating the pulleys, the cabin, the automation system and the track. This will not only allow an increase in the capacity of the elevator but also make it easier for the employees of SETE to undertake regular maintenance. The organization performs checks every day to ensure the smooth running of the facilities.

The modernization process will reduce waiting times and ensure optimum visitor flow. The number of tickets sold online will be adapted accordingly for the duration of the work.

The lift will be available to the public in the first quarter of 2021.

Better signage for better access

The redesign of the signage to get to the Eiffel Tower is an important initiative, so that one of the most visited landmarks in the world becomes even more accessible for all its visitors.

The program will improve the signs, and provide better signage layout for the surrounding garden areas and inside the monument.

An innovative ticketing system

Last but not least, SETE will undertake an extensive restoration of the ticketing system. As the efforts are focused on considerably reducing waiting times, the number of tickets to be sold online will significantly increase in the coming years. Thus, 50 percent of the tickets will be sold online this summer, then 60 percent in 2019, reaching 80 percent in 2021.

The story behind the Eiffel Tower

Magic in the snow. Photo: Sarah Fauvel

The enduring monument was specifically built to mark the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, held to commemorate the 100 th anniversary of the French Revolution.

Its construction took two years, two months and five days. Originally the tower was controversial among artists, but since then the impressive structure has been a great source of inspiration for countless writers, painters, singers, sculptors… There are even replicas around the world. It was never meant to last, as it was originally intended to only stand for 20 years. But the tower was saved, thanks to it usefulness as a wireless telegraph transmitter.

Photo: SETE/ E Livinec

The Eiffel Tower is now the emblematic symbol of France. The Iron Lady remains standing tall and proud to dominate the skyline of Paris, and radiates a special beauty when it sparkles at night with its diamond lights.

On average, 6 million visitors a year look up at this gorgeous architectural masterpiece in awe. The lattice iron structure is 1,063 feet high and weighs 10,000 tons. It is made of 18,000 assembled pieces of wrought iron joined together by 2.5 million rivets with 20,000 bulbs, and with 1,665 steps to get to the top.

The landmark was successfully restored in 1890, 1900, 1937, 1981 and 2011.

The beauty of its silhouette at sunset. Photo: Sarah Fauvel

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Throughout the renovations, the Iron Lady will continue to enchant locals, tourists, lovebirds, photographers, and arts and history lovers from all over the world. It will still be open 365 days a year, while its beam of diamond lights will still lighten the skyline of Paris every night.

The work will not impact the attraction’s hours, though the construction may alter the aesthetics of the relevant areas.

The Eiffel Tower is located at Champ de Mars, 5, Avenue Anatole France in the 7th Arrondissement. It is open from Monday through Sunday from 9:30 p.m. to 11:45 p.m. with the elevator and from 9:30 to 6:30 p.m. with the stairs.

Opening hours during the summer (July 7 to September 1): Monday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 12:45 a.m (with the elevator and the stairs).

For more information, go to the website of the Eiffel Tower at: https://www.toureiffel.paris/en

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Here's a first look at the redesigned Eiffel Tower Park in Paris

The City of Paris just announced the winner of its ambitious Site Tour Eiffel Competition: the team led by London-based landscape architects Gustafson Porter + Bowman will be tasked to improve and reimagine the grounds around the city's most iconic landmark, just in time for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. The winning proposal "OnE I" was selected from a shortlist which also included AL_A Architects, KOZ-architectes, and Agence Ter.

"We would like to thank the City of Paris for having run a competition that has been engaging and educative, challenging and rewarding," GP+B responded to the winning announcement. "Thanks to an open and ongoing dialogue, the City has played an essential role in stimulating ideas and debate around the proposals for this site. We have never experienced such a resonsive approach to a competition."

Read on for the project summary from the designers.

"Every year 30 million people visit the Eiffel Tower, situated at the heart of Paris. Seven million choose to ascend the monument for soaring views over the city. One of the most iconic landmarks in the world, the site is a victim of its popularity. Fundamental issues like over-crowding, impaired accessibility, lack of services, and congested gardens have impacted the experience of the Eiffel Tower and its surroundings."

"The City of Paris shortlisted Gustafson Porter + Bowman – alongside three other teams from 42 entries – to reimagine the landscape of the Eiffel Tower. This major international competition sought designs that would respond to the brief - discover, approach, visit – and deliver a landscape that aligns with the City’s vision for a resilient, inclusive and environmentally-oriented future. The winning proposal, Gustafson Porter + Bowman’s OnE scheme, envisions one readable landscape that reveals unity, continuity and diversity."

"OnE proposes a unifying axis: celebrating the Eiffel Tower at the centre of a line that connects the Place du Trocadéro, the Palais de Chaillot, the Pont d’Iéna, the Champ de Mars and the Ecole Militaire. Along this central green axis, a series of reimagined landscapes interlock: at the Place du Trocadéro, an amphitheatre of greenery restores space to pedestrians; a new and enlivened public space unfolds from the Varsovie Fountains towards the Pont d’Iéna; the bridge is reincarnated as a green promenade towards the gardens of the Eiffel Tower; the forecourt of the Eiffel Tower caters to the crowds with additional services and facilities discreetly hidden amongst the trees; and the raised lawns of the Champ de Mars protect and elevate the landscape."

"OnE also creates spaces of pleasure and contemplation that punctuate the length of the site, and serve to prioritise the human scale. New perspectives are framed and staged, rebalancing the gravitational pull of the Eiffel Tower and activating a sense of arrival throughout. The OnE proposal establishes a coherent and refined hierarchy of uses across the site, improving pedestrian accessibility and city circulation."

"OnE thus evokes the union of two historic landscape typologies: classical French gardens, characterized by major axes that express power; and French picturesque gardens, as places of artistic experimentation. In this urban landscape, green routes and gardens reserved for creative pursuits frame and soften the central axis. These “corridors” and “glades” introduce biodiversity, as well as areas for hosting temporary events. such as musical performances and sculpture exhibitions. Thus, OnE compresses into one word the idea and ideal of a unified space."

"Lastly, OnE embodies the international character of the site; it connects not only the site from West (Trocadéro) to East (Joffre) – the Ouest-Est / OnE represents the interconnections on this site between the West and East of the world: one humanity, one planet. Therefore, OnE encapsulates a unified environmental approach towards the future. The City of Paris and the OnE proposal represent the vanguard of instituting environmental resilience into an urban context. As part of the city’s showcase for the 2024 Olympic games, the first phase of the redevelopment is to be completed by 2023."

The GP+B-led team also includes architects Chartier Corbasson, urban designers Sathy, engineering firm MA-Geo, legal and financial advisor Ariane Dienstag, and heritage architects Atelier Monchecourt, in addition to Devillers & Associates, 8’18, BIM Services, Gévolys, Area 17, Studio Brichet Ziegler, JML, YRIS Amo, Inex Sas, Bollinger + Grohmann, AVEL, ducks Scéno, Manifesto, SCO, SEMOFI, Sol Paysage, CDVIA, Movement Strategies, Professor Alain Bourdin, VPEAS, Deloitte and MIR.

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The Eiffel Tower to Undergo 15-Year, €300 Million Renovation Project

• Written by Patrick Lynch
• Published on January 16, 2017

The Eiffel Tower is set to undergo a massive renovation project: a 15-year, €300 Million endeavor that will preserve the attraction for decades to come.

Built 128 years ago as a temporary structure for 1889 Universal Exhibition in Paris , the tower has since grown into a global icon, attracting nearly 7 million visitors per year and serving as an important symbol of French unity during times of both celebration and tragedy.

The project will encompass a full structural analysis, replacement of the tower’s lighting systems and an overhaul of the tower’s elevators, which still use some of Eiffel’s original workings. Additional improvements will include a modernization of security technology and an enhanced visitor experience to reduce wait times and shelter tourist from harsh weather conditions.

“There could be one or more places for the public to wait that are sheltered. Today, they are queueing in the rain and snow, and that’s not the best welcome for our foreign tourists,” said Jean-François Martins, the deputy mayor of Paris.

The announcement was made as Paris bids for the 2024 Olympic Games and the Universal Exhibition in 2025.

The project will break down into a €20 million per year investment, a 45% increase from the €13.7 million already spent each year on maintenance. The tower is fully repainted every seven years, a process which requires 66 tons of paint and 20 months to complete.

The last major renovation to the tower took place just 3 years ago, when the first floor reopened following two years of work. Previous to that, the last large-scale renovation occurred in 1986.

The project proposal will be presented to the Paris council for approval at the end of January.

News via The Guardian .

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Major renovations of the Eiffel Tower to take place before the 2024 Olympics

Overwhelmed by heightened security measures, including the installment of a bullet-proof glass barrier, the surroundings of the Eiffel Tower are not the most eye-pleasing as of late.   Even before reaching the never-ending line to access the elevators, visitors must make their way past the multiple construction barriers that surround the four feet of the “Dame de Fer”.   Not to mention the traffic in the surrounding streets, which is more congested than ever.   We have a hard time imagining that the tower will fully shine in all her splendor, in a pleasant and calm environment, before the Olympic Games to take place in the capital in 2024.

This is, however, exactly the ambition of the City of Paris, which launched the project “Grand site tour Eiffel: découvrir, approcher, visiter” last January.   In May, the Deputy Mayors of Paris Jean-Louis Missika (Urban Planning) and Jean-François Martins (Tourism) unveiled the four finalist teams selected to reimagine the site of the Eiffel Tower.

For years now, the City of Paris and the Societé d’exploitation de la tour Eiffel (SETE) have deliberated over the best way to welcome the tourists coming to discover this emblematic site of Paris and of France.   What’s different this time, however, is that the deliberation won’t stop at the four pillars of the tower itself.   The teams must widen their scope to include the surroundings of the site, from Trocadéro to École Militaire, from le Musée du quai Branly to Bir-Hakeim.

The City isn’t looking for an architectural feat here, like la Pyramide du Louvre. “The architectural feat is already there.   This is not about reinventing the Eiffel Tower, but about highlighting it by connecting it to its surroundings,” notes Jean-Louis Missika. “Studies have shown that a visit to this monument is not only limited to the confines of its vertical dimensions, but starts as soon as it is seen.”   In fact, during peak tourist season, some 120,000 people a day are said to visit the Eiffel Tower, whilst only 20,000 to 30,000 actually climb it.   Most people, thus, are happy to walk under and around it, taking a souvenir photo along the way.

International and multidisciplinary teams

Among the four teams chosen as finalists for the project, two are lead by architects, the British firm AL_A Amanda Levete Architects and the Parisian company KOZ Architects; and two are led by landscape architects, Gustafson Porter + Brown from London and the French team TER.   All groups, however, are highly skilled across multiple disciplines in the global sphere.   The architects from TER have joined forces with Italian engineering architect Carlo Ratti, among others, while those from Gustafson will work with the urban planners from the Sathy agency, under Franco-Korean Tae-hoon Yoon.   AL_A will work in partnership with two chief architects from Monuments historiques français and KOZ has recruited Junya Ishigami, the Japanese architect known for his refined style, respectful of historical sites.

“Beyond the international scope, what captured our attention was the nuanced approach to landscape and urban integration that these teams were able to demonstrate through the references they highlighted, i.e. the ability to adapt to a complex environment, to understand its purpose, all while respecting its patrimonial importance,” emphasizes Jean François Mangin, project manager.

Pedestrian-friendly access

The teams must rethink how the Eiffel Tower welcomes visitors, from the metro stations closest to the site, to the open square under and around the tower, to the four pillars of the tower itself.   The teams must also prioritize the simplification and improved fluidity of the waiting lines to climb the tower, all while reflecting on how to provide services and facilities, dining options, and weather protection. 

Beyond this, the project involves the creation of new walking paths featuring welcome centers offering information, relaxation areas, recreation areas, and eateries.   This will involve rethinking traffic flow at the intersections located on either side of pont d’Iéna, now entirely devoted to cars, in order to provide designated paths for pedestrians as well as those on bikes, scooters, rollerblades, etc.   This could mean, as suggested by one elected official, opening the tunnel located under quai Branly at bridge level to those using modes of transportation other than just cars. Some go so far as to dream of seeing the largest Parisian park emerge from this project, with one end on each side of the Seine.

Being classified wooded areas, any plans for construction on the Champ-de-Mars and les jardins du Trocadéro are not possible.   However, the idea here is to restore the life of the numerous historic pavilions dotting these areas, with the help of les Architectes des bâtiments de France.   These pavilions, dating back to the 30’s, are rather neglected today and could be reimagined to play host to small boutiques, activities and events, and seasonal popup shops, easily dismantled as the seasons change. 

“The objective is to create a truly unique visiting experience for tourists by capturing their attention as soon as they first show an interest in seeing the Eiffel Tower, presumably through internet research, and then by offering informational tours allowing them to discover all of the historical and patrimonial wealth this major attraction has to offer,” explains Jean-François Mangin.

At the very least, “this project aims to restore life, coherence and unity to this site, which today consists of a tall attraction, the tower, with nothing else around it.  But the broader goal here is also about bringing back Parisians,” notes Jean-François Martins, Deputy of Tourism. For the City, which has set aside a budget of 40 million euros excluding tax for the redevelopment, an indicator of the project’s success would not be so much an increase in the number of tourists coming to see the Eiffel Tower, which would only be an induced effect of the renovations, but the return of Parisians and residents of Greater Paris to the site.

The winning team will be selected in May 2019 and the project must be completed in time for the 2024 Olympic Games.

Source:  Comment Paris veut « magnifier » la tour Eiffel

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Travaux des abords de la Tour Eiffel : le projet final enfin dévoilé

Le projet de réaménagement des abords de la  Tour Eiffel existe depuis 2017 et jusqu'à présent, c'était le projet ONE qui était en passe d'être mis en place. Mais le projet de la paysagiste américaine  Kathryn Gustafson a essuyé beaucoup de critiques , au point que le délai de réflexion a été plus long que prévu. Dans un article du JDD, on apprend que le premier adjoint à la  mairie de Paris , Emmanuel Grégoire , a des intentions précises, et que le projet doit se terminer pour les  Jeux Olympiques de 2024. 

L'adjoint a indiqué à l'hebdomadaire que le projet ONE allait être suivi à 95% , c’est-à-dire qu'entre le  Trocadéro au  Champ-de-Mars , une " continuité paysagère " sera mise en place. Sa particularité, elle contiendra moins de  voitures et plus de nature .  Mais face au scandale que le prix des travaux et leur contenu avait provoqué, quelques changements ont été effectués : le budget baisse de 7 millions d'euros, pour un total avoisinant les 100 millions d'euros . Surtout, aucune construction ne sera faite au pied de la Tour Eiffel, c'est le point qui avait suscité le plus d'incompréhension de la part des Parisiens. 

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Sinon, le reste du projet est maintenu : la  place du Trocadéro gagnera 2000 m² de surface végétalisées , en plus des 2500 déjà existantes et l'esplanade sera en partie piétonnisée, en supprimant le rond-point au profit de quatre voies de circulation. Les allées de Varsovie auront elles aussi 3000 m² de pelouse en plus, tandis que celles du Champ-de-Mars seront rénovées. 

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Projet "One": à quoi ressembleront les abords de la Tour Eiffel?

À quoi vont ressembler le Champ-de-Mars et les abords du Trocadéro ? La mairie de Paris a dévoilé les contours du projet de réaménagements des abords de la Tour Eiffel et annoncé l'annulation de certaines constructions.

"La philosophie d’ensemble reste la même, déclare le premier adjoint, Emmanuel Grégoire, dans Le JDD . Nous allons mettre en œuvre 95 % du projet ONE, c’est-à-dire une continuité paysagère du Trocadéro au Champ-de-Mars, fidèle au dessin d’origine, respectueuse du patrimoine, avec moins de voitures et plus de nature".

Pas de construction aux pieds de la tour Eiffel

Controversés, les projets de construction aux pieds de la Tour Eiffel ont été annulés. Le projet One prévoyait de remplacer les cabanons, les locaux techniques et les bases de chantier par "quatre petites constructions élégantes, dont deux semi-enterrées, qui nécessitaient de ­couper un arbre remarquable", indique Emmanuel Grégoire, à nos confrères du JDD .

Ce dernier reconnaît que cette nécessité est "problématique" et indique l'annulation "purement et simplement [de] tout projet de construction au pied de la Tour, tout en maintenant le projet paysager ".

Concernant le Champ-de-Mars, les trois pelouses très abîmées vont subir une rénovation complète, dans les prochains jours. Elles seront remises en état, "à l'identique", selon Emmanuel Grégoire qui annonce que les travaux débuteront cette semaine.

Le projet reste le même Rive droite

Côté Rive droite, les espaces végétalisés du Trocadéro, ainsi que le parvis des droits de l'homme vont doubler de surface, passant ainsi de 2500 à 4000 mètres carrés, d'ici les Jeux olympiques de 2024.

Par ailleurs, le rond-point sera supprimé pour laisser place à un aménagement, en "fer-à-cheval". Une partie de l'esplanade deviendra piétonne. Les allées de Varsovie, situées en contrebas du palais de Chaillot, seront reprises: les gradins et terrasses seront recouverts de pelouses.

Pour le maire du 16e arrondissement, Francis Szpiner, ce projet est "funeste et dangereux". "S’il se produit un attentat ou une catastrophe, les secours ne pourront plus accéder au Trocadéro, déclare-t-il. Tout l’arrondissement sera asphyxié. Le préfet Didier Lallement s’y était opposé, je vois mal son successeur revenir sur cette décision. 

"De son côté, Emmanuel Grégoire assure qu’il ne transigera pas face à " ceux qui sont hostiles à la réduction de la place de la voiture": "la préfecture de police a donné toutes les autorisations, de même que la commission des sites, les architectes des bâtiments de France, le ministère de la Culture… (...) Les intentions de la Première ministre sur ce dossier nous semblent bonnes. "

Une transformation attend également le pont d'Iéna, en vue des Jeux olympiques. Il sera ainsi interdit à la circulation, sauf pour les bus, taxis et vélos.

Le long de la Seine, le quai Branly sera végétalisé de 4 500 mètres carrés et une voie de circulation sera supprimée.

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Depuis 2019, le projet "One", dont le budget est passé de 50 à 107 millions d'euros, est l'objet de contestations, notamment de la part des maires du 7e, 16e et 15e arrondissement. Rachida Dati, a d'ailleurs envoyé un courrier à Emmanuel Grégoire, dans lequel elle demande une nouvelle concertation sur le projet de réhabilitation du Champ de Mars .

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The Eiffel Tower in 1900

Eiffel tower.

In 1900, when the Eiffel Tower celebrated its 11th anniversary, it was no longer really a novelty. But the World's Fair held in Paris that year provided the perfect opportunity to modernise the monument, and make it the City of Light’s main attraction once again.

Opened on 14 April 1900 by French President Emile Loubet, the 1900 World's Fair spread over 216 hectares and welcomed more than 50 million visitors over 212 days.

The Fair bequeathed several buildings to Paris, the most iconic undoubtedly being the Petit Palais and the Grand Palais.

The 1900 World's Fair was an opportunity to revitalise the Eiffel Tower's declining appeal.

Projet de Stephen Sauvestre d'aménagement de la Tour Eiffel pour l'exposition de 1900 - Collection tour Eiffel by Collection tour Eiffel - SETE Eiffel Tower

Several plans for modifying the monument were suggested. One of the more daring was put forward by Stephen Sauvestre, an architect who had taken part in building the Tower.

His idea was to add two lateral towers to the monument, so that extra elevators to the second floor could be installed.

Although none of the plans devised for the World's Fair came to anything, the Eiffel Tower still underwent numerous improvements. The Tower notably capitalised on the period's technological advances to move into the modern era.

On the first floor, the internal passageway was widened by pushing back the building façades, which took on a brighter, more cheerful look. Four restaurants (Russian French, English and Dutch) were set up.  

The second floor platform was enlarged with an external gallery.

Illuminations de la tour Eiffel en 1900 - Copyright SETE by Copyright SETE Eiffel Tower

The 1900 World's Fair also marked the advent of 'the magic of electricity'.

The 10,000 gas lamps providing light up till then were replaced by 5,000 electric light bulbs.

But the greatest modernisation work carried out on the monument involved the complete overhaul of the elevators servicing the Eiffel Tower's first and second floors.

In June 1889, five hydraulic elevators were installed for the use of visitors. 

They were a formidable feat of technical engineering for the period, as never before had engineers tackled such heights, or such loads. From the time they were brought into service, these elevators enabled hundreds of thousands of visitors to safely ascend to a great height and gaze out over the entire city of Paris.

L'ascenseur système Fives-Lille montant les visiteurs du sol au 2e étage by © Collection tour Eiffel Eiffel Tower

But as they were based on a technology still in its infancy, Gustave Eiffel modernised the elevators for the 1900 World's Fair.

The Roux-Combaluzier elevators were replaced by two hydraulic press elevators built by Fives-Lille. Each consisted of two cabins with a 50-person capacity.

The elevators, vital components of the monument, were put under severe strain. Their annual journeys combined equalled two and half trips around the world – more than 103,000 kilometres. 

Today, a testament to the extraordinary technical engineering of the period, two of the elevators are still operating with the hydraulic technology of 1900, in the Eiffel Tower's East and West Pillars.

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The Marketing Store France est venu nous voir avec le besoin d'un projet moderne et fort pour remplacer le verre Coca-Cola, cadeau vu et revu accompagnant le menu BigMac de leur principal client McDonald's. Nous leur avons proposé comme demandé de superbes designs de vaisselle en grès dessinés sur mesure et réalisés en  3D pour chaque élément du menu, le BigMac bien entendu, les frittes, le sunday et la boisson. Cependant mon projet préféré reste celui-ci : pas une vaisselle MacDonald's à ordinnaire, mais un hybride à facettes, entre assiettes et suremballage en caoutchouc bio (bio-rubber) ! Plus de carton et de taches directement sur la table, pas d'assiettes dans lesquelles vous mettez vos frites et hamburgers à la main pour rendre votre table moins salissante, mais des coques en caoutchouc dans lesquelles placer directement votre BigMac, vos frites, le Sunday et la boisson sans même les sortir de leur emballage original. L'idée ? Rendre l'expérience BigMac plus stylisée, plus élégante, mais sans perdre l'esprit fastfood et l'usage auxquels sont habitués les clients McDonald's, qui quelque part s’effacerait à l'utilisation d'assiettes classiques. Bien sûr, chaque élément est marqué et signé du M, réutilisable, lavable et recyclable. Petit plus, nous avons ajouté un endroit pour verser le ketchup pour les frites. Ils ont adoré ! Malheureusement, après quelques tests clients, il a été décidé que le marché n'était pas encore prêt pour ce projet. Qu'en pensez-vous ? Voudriez-vous avoir en cadeau cette vaisselle packaging hybride au lieu d'un verre Coca-Cola?  

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International projects call to redesign the Eiffel Tower Area

Friday 22 December 2017

Modified the 27/12/23

Every year, 20 million people from across the globe flock to this truly magnificent site with over six million tourists visiting the Eiffel Tower. How can this monument be adapted to showcase the warm welcome awaiting visitors to Paris?

Paris City Council, in collaboration with Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel (SETE), is seeking to provide people visiting the French capital’s most famous monument with a world-class welcome, by creating a new way of discovering the tower and its immediate surroundings, accessible to all, and worthy of this outstanding site. This is the aim of the project named “The Eiffel Tower Great Site: discovering, approaching, visiting.”

A more enjoyable and easier-to-access visit

The Eiffel Tower Great Site project concerns a large area around the monument, stretching from the Trocadero to the Ecole Militaire (Military School), taking in Champ de Mars and Bir Hakeim, and going as far as the Quai Branly Museum. Paris City Council is looking to make visits more enjoyable and easier to access: a wider range of services throughout the whole visit (toilets, benches, left-luggage offices, eateries, …), a cultural offering enabling visitors to rediscover the wealth of the site’s history and heritage as well as making it more secure for pedestrians. Pedestrian access from public transport stops will be improved with enhanced signage and real-time information (events, waiting times, conditions for access...). 

International call for projects in January 2018

The international call for projects will be launched in January 2018 and will concern urbanism, architecture and landscaping players. The redevelopment of the Eiffel Tower Great Site will be completed by 2023, in time for the 2024 Olympic Games.

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