Under Construction Of The Most Famous Structures.

Eiffel Tower under construction:

Eiffel Tower: One of the most recognizable structures in the world. It was a French structural engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel & his team of engineers Maurice Koechlin & Emile Nouguier (assisted in the design), & architect Stephen Sauvestre who created it.
The tower was completed in 1889 & was inaugurated on March 31, 1889; opened on 6 May. Using two & a half million rivets 18,038 pieces of puddled iron, it was joined by three hundred workers & it weighs 7,300 tons & needed 40 tons of paint. And the cost of construction was 7.8 million francs ($1.5 million).
And presently as a part of maintenance it needs 50 to 60 tons of paint every seven years to protect it from rust.















Eiffel Tower under construction in July 1888.





(Image credit: Feels).

Statue of Liberty under construction:

(Image credit: Yesterdays).

The Statue of Liberty under construction in Paris, 1878. 'This photo by Albert Fernique shows men working with sheets of copper on forms & assembling a portion of Miss Liberty in a workshop in Paris.'

Sagrada Familia under construction:

(Image credit: Yesterdays).

The Sagrada Família by night in March 2006
Construction began in 1882 & continues to this day. The project is scheduled to be completed in 2026. The original designer Gaudí (1852 - 1926) on the subject of the extremely long construction period is said to have remarked, "My client is not in a hurry."

Flatiron Building under construction:

(Image: Credit).

Designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham in the Beaux-Arts style one of the first buildings to use a steel framework.

Capitol Building under construction:

This photo was in 1861.

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