Description
Designed by Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, employees at Compagnie des Établissements Eiffel (Eiffel Construction Company), this building is named for engineer Gustave Eiffel. The Eiffel Tower is a wrought iron lattice structure built on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France, to be the entrance to the 1889 World’s Fair. Its style has been referred to alternatively as Victorian and Structural Expressionist. At 1063 feet (324 meters), it was the tallest man made structure in the world until 1930 when it was superseded by the Chrysler Building in New York.