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Charles Léon Stephen Sauvestre (26 December 1847 – 26 December 1919) was a French architect. He is notable for being one of the architects contributing to the design of the world-famous Eiffel Tower , built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris , France .
- Architect
- Eiffel Tower
Mr. Stephen Sauvestre is the son of Charles Sauvestre, deep pedagogical writer, who left prominent traces in Education by his writings and services that delivered the good fight for progress and freedom, next to Barral, in the Pacific Democracy, the Phalansterian Review, the Reformation of 1848, the Scientific Press of the Two-Worlds, the ...
Jul 11, 2011 · Stephen Sauvestre was born in 1847, and was one of the first graduates of the Ecole spéciale d'architecture, a new school set up to separate this discipline from the world of the Beaux-Arts. Students learned about modern techniques involving metal structures, and a little later reinforced concrete, and were encouraged to work on useful ...
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On September 18 1884 Eiffel registered a patent "for a new configuration allowing the construction of metal supports and pylons capable of exceeding a height of 300 metres". In order to make the project more acceptable to public opinion, Nouguier and Koechlin commissioned the architect Stephen Sauvestre to work on the project's appearance.
- 150 workers in the Levallois-Perret factory
- 2 years, 2 months and 5 days of construction
- 18,038 metallic parts
Apr 26, 2019 · Transformation thanks to Stephen Sauvestre. The sketch was shown to Eiffel who then declared that he was not interested in it while giving his engineers permission to continue the study. They then called on Stephen Sauvestre, the company's official architect, to completely redesign the project. The engineers' technical sketch was transformed.
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A realized utopia. Sauvestre proposed stonework pedestals to dress the legs, monumental arches to link the four columns and the first level, large glass-walled halls on each level, a bulb-shaped design for the top and various other ornamental features to decorate the whole of the structure.
