DBWI Eiffel Tower Still Stood

I find it very appleasing to the eye actually. Then again I'm not french.:p

I find it to be a beautiful architectural piece, but then again I'm a vulgar American. We gave the world the skyscraper, pioneered jazz and art deco while mostly keeping to our own hemisphere at least until the European powder keg blew up in 38'
 
I remember reading somewhere that some idiot not only wanted it kept, but wanted it plated in Brass as well (never mind the weight issue). Can you imagine what that would have looked like.
 
So I was looking through a book on the history of the World's Fair and came across a few old daguerreotypes of the Tour Eiffel, a tower built with the modern methods of the 1889 World's Fair to showcase French industry. Apparently, it attracted quite a bit of controversy in its time, and was dismantled in 1909 following the expiration of its lease. Rather interesting building, if I do say so myself, but I can't imagine seeing modern-day Paris with it still standing. What do you all think? Would Paris look better with a titanic iron tower standing in it's center, or does the Parisian insistence on keeping all monuments simple and classically-based make the city look nicer?

The only place that thing belongs is an amusement park. In Paris, it would be like a zit on the face of a beautiful woman.

OOC: Kings Island and Kings Dominion have 1/3 scale replicas of the OTL Tower
 
It would definitely look weird, given how Paris looks. Then again, the city probably would have had more modernist architecture if there were already a standing, notable monument in that vein...

Oh, and Alex1guy, here's a picture I found of it from 1889:

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There's sort of an elegance to it, I suppose, but... it's more the sort of elegance you expect from a particularly well-designed cell phone tower, not a national monument. Though maybe I'm biased - that Classical and Imperial-style from Paris is the basis for a lot of the monumental work here in Philadelphia I grew up with.

Hey, I got five bars!

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I could imagine it becoming a huge attraction for basejumping and bungeejumping. Could make real money for Paris.

I would place it away from the center though. Nobody wants to see a funfare attraction in the middle of the culutral centre of Paris.
 
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