Completed in 1889, the Eiffel Tower was conceived as the centerpiece of Paris for the 1889 Exposition Universelle (World's ...

Now, those voices have been joined by the family of Gustave Eiffel — the engineer who designed the eponymous tower for the ...

The Paris Olympics are over, but many in the city are still basking in the glow – including the mayor, who wants to keep the ...

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A UNESCO World Heritage Site and a famous symbol of Paris, the Eiffel Tower is at the center of a burgeoning debate over ...

The Paris mayor wants the Olympic logo to stay on the monument. Gustave Eiffel’s descendants say the tower shouldn’t be a ...

Completed in 1889 for Paris' Universal Exhibition and originally intended to stand for only 20 years, the 1,082-foot Eiffel Tower is owned by the city of Paris. It's the world's most visited monument ...

I.M. Pei’s pyramids outside the Louvre were panned after their installation in the 1980s, and even the tower itself, which ...

It is the most visited monument in the world. Eiffel’s relatives, ready to take legal action according to CBS, “oppose any ...

As much as the French capital reveled in the celebratory air of the Olympics this summer, many are less than thrilled to discover Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s plan to keep the iconic Olympic rings ...

Mayor Anne Hidalgo said that it was a “beautiful idea” to combine a quintessentially French icon, the Eiffel Tower, which was originally built for the 1889 World’s Fair, with a global one.

Nicola Wood, Senior Editor Designed and constructed for the 1889 Exposition Universelle (the World's Fair), the Eiffel Tower was always meant to be a temporary structure, but it has skirted ...