This time, the French has pushed it way over again - if the criticisms of influential French philosophes and artists of 19-20th century finally proved wrong, when big names like Guy de Maupassant, Charles gounod, Victorien Sardou and so on wrote a letter “against the construction of the Eiffel Tower” because it was “useless and monstrous”. To celebrate the 120th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower, the French government has decided to construct a temporary ‘Access Platform’ on the top of the tower to accommodate the anticipated huge number of tourists, who will likely still be advised to wait in line early for about five hours to see the top of the tower.
I do not want to make the same mistake that those have in the late 19th, but I cannot convince myself that this structure is not going to be an eyesore. What I have in mind is either a rotten Takashi mushroom, or a revisit of the aliens from Independence Day. With all seriousness, the cap destroys the beautiful curve of the tower, which leads to infinity when it decreases in dimensions along the top, which gives a tremendous sense of lightness to the structure. Now the cap hammers it back into the ground.
Good news is, this thing is not going to be permanent. They have promised to get rid of it as soon as the anniversary is over. But remember that when the Tower itself was built for the Expo, it was not meant to be kept. Plus when the tower is generating profits from tourists at a much higher rate, they might be a little more reluctant as well. Please, for the sake of Paris, do get rid of it or the Paris Commués shall descend into the streets again. Déscendons dans la rue!
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Apart from its visual downside to the tower, the construction of the cap seems as if to have such an exclusive motive of tourist profits whereas the original contruction of the tower, though useless, could be explained by some centain symbolic significances, “un symbole d’audace créatrice, de la ascension du materialisme……”
Hopefully ,it’s not gonna stay there for long.