The South Seas Eiffel
On this day in 1889, NZ’s very own Eiffel Tower opened for business. Only eight and a half months earlier, Gustave Eiffel had unveiled his elegant namesake as the centrepiece of the Paris Exhibition Universelle. It was pure in concept, ingeniously engineered, monumentally modern, and at 300m the world’s tallest tower (holding this record until […]
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