Phare du Monde
The Phare du Monde (German lighthouse of the world) was an observation tower project that was never realized for the 1937 World's Fair in Paris . The Phare du Monde was designed as a 701 meter high concrete tower, on the outside of which one could have driven up a spiral ramp by car. A restaurant for 2,200 people and a parking garage for 500 vehicles were planned on the top of the tower. The design with projected construction costs of 2.5 million US dollars came from the French Eugène Freyssinet (1879–1962), the inventor of prestressed concrete .
Web links
- Illustration of the Phare du Monde in an English magazine
- Edward Relph: The modern urban landscape. From 1880 to the present. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 1987, ISBN 0-8018-3560-7 , pp 87-88 (digitized, English).
