"autres" Paris Travelogue by dromosapien

constructed: 1887-1889, for the 1889 L'Exposition Universelle de Paris / World's Fair
architect: Stephen Sauvestre (1847-1919)
engineer: Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (1832 -1923)
height: 324 meters / 1,063 feet, 3 levels

Pigalle, Paris, France 1973

- Boulevard de Clichy in Quartier Pigalle, named for sculptor Jean Baptiste Pigalle (1714-1785)

Louvre Museum, Paris, France 2009

- a Royal Palace 1546-1678 until Louis XIV (1638-1715) replaced it with Versailles
re use: museum
- 1747: Palace of the Muses (Museum)
- 1793: Museum Central des Arts
- 1803: Musee Napoleon (1769-1821)
- 1827: Musee Charles X (1757-1836)
- 1857: Nouveau Louvre

Louvre Pyramid construction & Grand Louvre renovation, 1989-1999
architect: Ieoh Ming Pei (1917- ) Chinese

Grande Arche, Paris, France 1998

- great arch, a.k.a. Arche de la Defense, a 35 story office building

constructed: 1983-1989
architect: Johann Otto von Spreckelsen (1929-1987) Denmark, & Paul Andreu (1938-) France
height: 110.9 meters / 364 feet
width: 106.9 meters / 351 feet
depth: 112 meters / 367 feet
location: Puteaux, Quartier la Defense

Place de la Concorde, Paris, France 1973

- square of harmony, the largest square in Paris, with perhaps the most auto traffic too

constructed: 1755, named Place Louis XV (1710-1774)
architect: Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698-1782)
renamed: 1792, Place de la Revolution ,the site of thousands of executions by guillotine including Louis XVI (1754-Jan.1793)) and Marie Antoinette (1755-Oct.1793) during the French Revolution (1789-1799).
renamed: 1795, Place de la Concorde
renamed: 1826, Place Louis XVI (1754-93), by Charles X (1757-1836)
renamed: 1830, Place de la Concorde after the Revolution de Juillet / 1830 Revolution

1836: Luxor Obelisk a.k.a. Cleopatra's Needle from Luxor, Egypt was installed on the former site of the guillotine
-created: about 1,300 B.C.
-height: 23 meters / 75 feet
location: 8th arrondissement

Geode, Paris, France 2009

- Imax theater along Canal de l’Ourcq

constructed: 1985
architect: Adrien Fainsilber (1932-)
engineer: Gerard Chamayou (1929-)
diameter: 36 meters / 118 feet
location: Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie, in Parc de la Villette

Chapelle de la Sorbonne, Paris, France 2009

- chapel of the school named for Robert de Sorbon (1201-1274), bishop and university founder

University of Paris founded: c. 1160
College de Sorbonne founded: 1253
chapel constructed: 1622-1642
architect: Jacques Lemercier (1585-1654)
address: Boulevard Saint Michel, Place de la Sorbonne

Canal Saint Martin, Paris, France 2009

- waterway that connects the Canal de l'Ourcq to the river Seine

constructed: 1802-1825, to supply water to Paris and for shipping
principal engineer: Pierre-Simon Girard (1765-1836)
length: 4.5 km / 2.8 miles
address: 10th arrondissement