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Re: LEGO Sculpture: Eiffel Tower
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lugnet.build.sculpture
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Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:01:13 GMT
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from http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/FR/ParisEiffelTower.html :
"In spite of this height, the Eiffel Tower has just four floors. All are
served by specially designed elevators that, instead of running up a
vertical track, move along a curve dictated by the tower's sloping form."
The photos clearly show the wholly unobstructed space at ground level. The
tower is actually a gate, after all. The text goes a bit wobbly by the end,
"a 40-mile view of Paris and its environs sprawled out in a spider web
pattern inconceivable from the ground," which is clearly ridiculous because
it was, of course, conceived by Hausmann.
http://gallery.sjsu.edu/paris/architecture/Haussman.html
In lugnet.build.sculpture, Lewis Valentine writes:
> I have a better idea. The real tower has two elevators to travel to the
> first story. If you were to build these you could possibly put some extra
> supports inside and remove the white bricks.
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> Of course to be realistic you could also put two huge queue lines with
> scores of tourist minfig's. ;)
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> In lugnet.build.sculpture, Ross Crawford writes:
> > In lugnet.announce.moc, Eric Harshbarger writes:
> > >
> > > Well, if there were a lugnet.build.tall.as.@!#$ newsgroup, I'd have
> > > followups go to there...
> > >
> > > Here's my latest project completed:
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> > > The Eiffel Tower (12 feet tall)
> > > http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/eiffel_tower.html
> >
> > Well, hey - if you'd used technic beams you wouldn't need that pillar
> > holding it up!
> >
> > Exquisite.
> >
> > ROSCO
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