What was the purpose of building the Eiffel Tower?
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it was built for the 1889 world fare
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Eiffel Tower\nThe Louvre\nArc de Triomphe  \nNotre Dame de Paris Cathedral\nMusée Jacquemart-André \nLa Sainte Chapelle\nMusée d'Orsay
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-To reform my life and stay away from sin.\n-To put my heart into studying French.
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The Eiffel Tower is the tallest building in Europe - 984 feet.
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To protect the world from terrorists.
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The purpose is functional, but it's psychological rather than mechanical.\n\nHere's an explanation, from: http://www.slyasafox.com/book/book_33.html\n\n"In the early industrial age, buildings began to spring up all over the east coast. Many of these new buildings were taller than anything ever built before and most had elevators. As buildings got taller and taller, more people began to use elevators. Elevators in those days were pretty darn slow. People were constantly complaining about how slow the elevators were. \n\nElevator companies were challenged with this problem and came up with the typical problem statement elevators move too slow. So they went off to design elevators that were faster and safer, but at the time it was very expensive to do so. Several companies went off and running to build a safer and faster elevator, and one elevator company proposed a different problem statement. They may have had a different name for the approach, but they were using the fundamentals of the �est problem statement tool. One engineer said, I think our elevator speeds are just fine, people are crazy. \n\nThen an engineer proposed that they work on a different problem statement. He proposed that the problem was people think elevators move to slow. He inserted two words people think into the problem statement which allowed the design team to approach the problem from a completely different angle and thus a whole new set of ideas. Instead of concentrating on larger motors, slicker pulley designs and such, they concentrated on the passenger in the elevator.\n\nWhen they looked at the problem from this angle, the ideas started to snowball. Is it really too slow? Why do they think it is slow? How can we distract them? How can we make it more comfortable? Are customers scared of heights?\n\nThis lead to some first hand customer research. They found that a lot of people thought the elevators were a lot slower then they actually were. \n\n\nThey also discovered that people had an exaggerated sense of time because they had nothing to do but stare at the wall and think about the safety of the elevator  being suspended in the air, and preoccupied with the fear of falling. \n\nt room for additional equipment of any sort, so they brainstormed on that. This lead to the idea of mirrors in elevators so people would think about something else besides danger. Was their hair combed properly? Did her makeup look okay?\n\nBy installing mirrors in the elevators, people became distracted and were no longer preoccupied with the fear of falling. On a follow up survey, customers commented how much faster the new elevators were even though the speed was exactly the same. The elevator design itself had not changed at all." \n\n
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Currently there is a big focus on architecture using recycled materials, ambient light and other environmentally friendly stuff to erect "green buildings".  Lower energy consumption is also a big thing.
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Two common reasons:\n1) The building is an extension on another building, but is maintained as a separate residence. This is only used when the  extension has a separate enterance, and is most common when an apartment is attached to a single-family home.\n\n2) A building is built between two consecutively numbered buildings (e.g. between 864 and 866 - remember that all odd numbers are on one side of a street and all even numbers are on the other). Rather than renumber the entire street, they will the number that is in-between the two existing buildings (864 1/2).
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The Capital of France is Paris and it's where the Eiffel Tower is
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First, the castle is called "Usse" and not "Usee". (with an accent over the e to make it sound like "oo-say", natch.) This may have given you difficulty if you were searching online. (I found, actually, several sites with the same misspelling!) As you may know, the castle is thought to have served as an inspiration for the story of Sleeping Beauty and for Disneyland's famous castle, as well. \nWikipedia puts the time of construction as the 11th century. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_d'Uss%C3%A9  HOWEVER, the official French site for Usse says something quite different, which is that it was constructed between the 15th and 18th centuries. Judging by the castle's appearance, that would seem much more likely. The Wikipedia entry may be referring to the original "stronghold" that was built before the current chateau.\nFor the best information, I would recommend this site, which appears to have the most information regarding the castle: http://period8mayer.tripod.com/Usse.html\n(They also agree with the construction having begun in the 15th century.)\nPS, Remember to put an accent egu over the "e" in Usse, to keep your French teacher happy, if it is a French class. :-)
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The eifel tower is 320.75 m and the space needle is only 184m.\n\nSo the eifel tower is taller
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Arc de Triomphe on the Place de l'Étoile. \n\nNapoleon Bonaparte built this monument for the glorification of his French Army. His victorious troops would march on through the arch cheered by the population of Paris. This never happened thanks to General Wellington who defeated Napoléon at Waterloo in 1815.  It was finished in 1836 and is decorated with bas-reliefs depicting scenes from the revolutionary era. In 1921, the tomb of an unknown soldier was added in remembrance of 1.5 million soldier victims of WWI.\n\nDo you need more than than?  :)
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world's fair\n\nSpecially constructed attraction showcasing the science, technology, and culture of participating countries and enterprises. World fairs have often featured outstanding architectural designs and introduced significant inventions. The first was held in England in 1756; more than 300 have been held since. The most notable include the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition (London), the 1876 U.S. International Centennial Exposition (Philadelphia), the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago), the 1901 Pan-American Exposition (Buffalo, N.Y.), the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, the 1910 Brussels World's Fair, the 1933–34 Century of Progress (Chicago), the 1939–40 Golden Gate Exposition (San Francisco), the 1939–40 New York World's Fair, the 1964–65 New York World's Fair, the 1967 Montreal Exposition, and the 1998 World Exposition (Lisbon).\n\nThe Ferris Wheel\n\nThe Ferris Wheel was the engineering highlight of the exposition and one of the most pervasive, lasting influences of the 1893 fair. The Ferris Wheel was Chicago's answer to the Eiffel Tower, the landmark of the 1889 Paris exhibition. The wheel was created by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania bridge builder George W. Ferris. Supported by two 140 foot steel towers, its 45 foot axle was the largest single piece of forged steel at the time in the world. The wheel itself had a diameter of 250 feet, a circumference of 825 feet, and the maximum height was 264 feet. It was powered by two 1000 horsepower reversible engines. It had 36 wooden cars that could each hold 60 people. The Ferris Wheel grossed $726,805.50 during its short time in operation, at 50 cents per ride. The profit of approx. $300,000 was of great benefit toward balancing the books of the exposition. The wheel was dismantled in mid-1894, after the fair, and reused at the St. Louis exposition in 1904. The original Ferris Wheel was scrapped in 1906. But, the influence of the engineering and entertainment marvel can be readily seen by the large number of Ferris Wheels of various types at fairs and entertainment grounds around the world.
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I cant verify this, but i "heard" that it originated because a polish ship designer had a plan to build ships quicker and cheaper and stronger using concrete. now this was a good idea(ww2 time frame), because ships could just be poured from a mold, and we needed a lot of ships quickly. Well anyway, the people using his design made some form of error and the ship sank, and everyone, not understanding the guys theories, just said "of course it sank, concrete doesnt float" and he was a "dumb polack". again, i cant verify that, it was a story one of my elementary teachers told me.
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In 1871, Chicago suffered a devastating fire. In the years that followed, however, instead of recovering slowly, the city experienced explosive growth, and it quickly began to strain against its natural boundaries. By the 1880s, the available land for new buildings in this area could not keep up with demand; the only alternative was to build up. But in order to achieve the desired height, construction techniques had to change. A new method of building was developed that used a grid of steel beams and columns that were strong enough to support any stresses or forces a building might experience, including both the weight of the floor and the building contents, as well as the force of wind or even, in some areas, earthquakes. And with this new building method, the skyscraper was born and the race for the tallest building began.    Louis Sullivan is actually normally called the Father of the Modern Day Skyscraper, he was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright
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Gargoyle's had dual purposes. The 1st was to scare away evil spirits. The 2nd was architectural, their tongues hanging out of their mouths was actually a rain spout designed to direct water away from the buildings foundation.
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I believe it might have been Gustave Eiffel.  He's most famous for the Eiffel Tower, but he used steel frames in buildings before that.  It's interesting that he sometimes put the steel frame on the outside of the structure, rather than the inside.  A good example of this is the Nestlé chocolate factory in Noisiel, France