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Eiffel Tower. 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. [1]
- Architect
- Eiffel Tower
The tower was the brainchild of entrepreneur Gustave Eiffel, architect Stephen Sauvestre, and engineers Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier. Eiffel’s reputation preceded him – he owned a metal works business and was the genius behind the steelwork frame of New York’s Statue of Liberty, built three years earlier.
They found an architect, Stephen Sauvestre, whom they knew and with whom the company had already worked, and Sauvestre produced another design. He even completely redrew the project.
The Design of the Eiffel Tower. The plan to build a tower 300 metres high was conceived as part of preparations for the World's Fair of 1889. Bolting the joint of two crossbowmen. (c): Collection Tour Eiffel. The wager was to " study the possibility of erecting an iron tower on the Champ-de-Mars with a square base, 125 metres across and 300 ...
- 150 workers in the Levallois-Perret factory
- 2 years, 2 months and 5 days of construction
- 18,038 metallic parts
Selected from among 107 projects, it was that of Gustave Eiffel, an entrepreneur, Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, both engineers, and Stephen Sauvestre, an architect, that was accepted.
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 original proposal of a grand tower to form the centerpiece of the 1889 Exposition Universelle was drafted by two engineers, Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier, and architect Stephen Sauvestre, all while working at Gustave Eiffel’s company.
