This familiar structure had its grand opening March 31, 1889. From the construction worker's point of view, the inside of the puddled iron framework is as geometric in design as Anne Tyng's influence over Louis Kahn. The Eiffel Tower in France, built for the 1889 Paris Exposition, introduced a type of iron lattice-work created by puddling, a technique that allowed an iron metal to be made tough enough to be machine wrought instead of hand wrought. Although iconic today, the tower was mocked by the French people, who saw little beauty in the useless monstrosity. From another point of view, we say that sometimes beauty lies within.
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