The monument responds to seasonal temperatures, contracting a few millimeters when it's cold and expanding when it's warm.

The team's design eventually beat out more than 100 other projects in a contest to become the main attraction of the 1889 World's Fair. The Eiffel Tower was supposed to be torn down. Though the ...

We give herewith an engraving of this great work, for which we are indebted to 'Blustration, and from Engineering we gather the following particulars : The Eiffel Tower is the natural development ...

The Eiffel Tower (Tour Eiffel in French) is one of the most iconic landmarks in the world, located in Paris, France. The ...

The Eiffel Tower is one of the most famous landmarks in the world and is best known entrance to the Eiffel Tower Second Floor. Built-in 1889, it stands at 324 meters (1,063 feet) tall and is ...

(Bloomberg) — When the Eiffel Tower was inaugurated at the 1889 Paris Exposition, it was derided by some of the city’s leading artists as useless, monstrous and barbaric. By objective measures it was ...

Eiffel Tower and the world around it. That summarises the ongoing photography exhibition, Under Eiffel’s Watch - A Parisian ...

The Eiffel Tower was evacuated this morning after a fire ... Built between 1887 and 1889 as part of the preparations for the Worlds’ Fair, the landmark is one of the most iconic symbols of ...

ROSMAN: "The Eiffel Tower," he says, "is already incredible enough as she is." In other words, if she ain't broke, don't fix her. Built for the 1889 World's Fair, the Eiffel Tower itself was ...

Nicola Wood, Senior Editor Designed and constructed for the 1889 Exposition Universelle (the World's Fair), the Eiffel Tower was always meant to be a temporary structure, but it has skirted ...