Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower in Champ de Mars, Paris, France. Built from 1887 to 1889, it was the centerpiece of the 1889 Exposition Universelle and is now one of the world’s most recognized structures.
French Towers
Montparnasse Tower
Montparnasse Tower is a skyscraper in Paris’s Necker district and part of the Tour Maine-Montparnasse complex. Inaugurated in 1973, it stands 209 metres tall without the 6-metre glass screen of its observatory.
Les savants de la tour Eiffel
Les savants de la tour Eiffel are 72 names inscribed on the first-floor frieze of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The gilded relief names commemorate scientists, engineers, and industrialists chosen to honor France from 1789 to 1889.
Belfry of Lille
The Belfry of Lille is the belfry of Lille City Hall, inaugurated in 1932. Standing 104 metres high, it is attached to the city hall and combines Art Deco and Neo-Flemish architecture.
Hôpital de la Charité de Lyon
The Hôpital de la Charité de Lyon was a former hospital built in Lyon to receive orphan children and indigent people. It was destroyed in 1934 because of unsanitary conditions, and only the church bell tower was preserved.
Grande roue de Paris
The Grande roue de Paris was a large Ferris wheel built for the Exposition universelle de 1900 in Paris. Located on avenue de Suffren, opposite the Galerie des Machines, it was later dismantled.
Observatoire de Super-Cannes
Observatoire de Super-Cannes, also called California Observatory, is an observation tower on the massif de la Californie in Cannes. Erected in 1925, it was rebuilt in 1953 by architect Georges Sauvan.
Tour Oxygène
Tour Oxygène is a 115-metre office skyscraper in Lyon. Built on the lot R extension of Cours Oxygène, it stands near Part-Dieu station and the shopping center, and includes underground parking with 495 spaces.
Château d'eau
Château d'eau is a nineteenth-century water tower near the cours Dillon beside Pont-Neuf in Toulouse, France. Converted into Galerie du Château d'Eau, it is a cultural institution dedicated to photography and listed as a historical monument.
Tour Swiss Life
Tour Swiss Life is an 82-metre office skyscraper in Lyon’s La Part-Dieu quarter, in the 3rd arrondissement. Built in 1989 by Charles Delfante, it houses the Swiss Life company and has 20 floors.