Some of the World’s Most Iconic Landmarks…Under Construction

In 1887, the Eiffel Tower was not yet finished, but it already had its red color which it will keep until 1906. In 1887, the Eiffel Tower was not yet finished, but it already had its red color which it will keep until 1906
The Tower has been re-painted 19 times since its initial construction, an average of once every seven years. It has changed colour several times, passing from red-brown to yellow-ochre, then to chestnut brown and finally to the bronze of today, slightly shaded off towards the top to ensure that the colour is perceived to be the same all the way up as it stands against the Paris sky.

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco

Statue of Liberty, New York City

The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France to the United States, already looked great in its Parisian construction workshop in 1884, two years before its inauguration in New York

Manhattan Bridge, March 23, 1909

Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro

Manhattan Bridge, New York City

Sydney Opera House

Gateway Arch, St. Louis

Tower Bridge, London

Space Needle, Seattle

Members of the Boulder City Consulting Board and other officials standing in a section of pipe over the Hoover Dam, 1935