A clay model of the Eiffel Tower, rendered in Rosé Pine red on a dark background
A site model of the Eiffel Tower in its neighbourhood: the landmark in Rosé Pine red among grey buildings, with its water in blue

Beside it, its neighbourhood: buildings and water from OpenStreetMap, the ground from the map's terrain tiles.

Paris · France

Eiffel Tower

330 metres · 1,083 feet

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Height
330 m1,083 ft
Completed
1889
By
Gustave Eiffel
Coordinates
48° 51′ 30″ N2° 17′ 40″ E · 48.8584, 2.2945

Four curved legs rise from a 125-metre square, meet at the second floor and run on as one shaft to the top. The great arches under the first floor are decoration: the iron would stand without them.

Modelled from simple shapes at roughly its true size, and rendered in clay. The map draws the rest the one way it draws everything: the ground under Paris, as contour lines coloured by height, with its water and its names.

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