Proposed tower for the 1937 Paris Exposition: Phare du Monde
Towering almost half a mile above the ground, dwarfing such gigantic structures as the Empire State Building and the Eiffel tower, a huge concrete tower 2300 feet high, surmounted with a beacon and built with a spiral ramp for autos to climb up its sides, stuns the imagination with its vastness.
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It is the design of the French engineer, M. Freyssinet, intended for the 1937 Paris Exhibition. He estimates the cost at less than half the Eiffel Tower, or in the neighborhood of $2,500,000. It will be called the “Phare du Monde,” or Lighthouse of the World- The project appears far removed from the visionary and a new all-time “high” in buildings seems in a fair way to being achieved.
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Not sure about you guys, but to me this looks ridiculously dangerous for cars and pedestrians.
Not to mention the insane amount of traffic and general pointlessness of driving up that type of a structure in a car. Dreams will be dreams I guess.
Haha an elevator would probably be a lot more effective.
Sweet looking cars!