How much skin color did the Eiffel Tower change in Paris in 133?

[Global Times Comprehensive Report] In order to welcome the 2024 Paris Olympics, the world -famous Paris landmark -the Eiffel Tower is experiencing a high "beauty surgery". French media revealed that the project is expected to spend 50 million euros. Among them, the rusty Paris "Iron Lady" brushing new paint is an important part of this "beauty surgery". The Eiffel Tower is 133 years old. The re -painted paint is also the 20th "skin exchange" of the tower.

Historically, the Eiffel Tower has not only brushed the paint again every 7 years, but the color of the paint is not the same. Blanko Royvo, general manager of the Eiffel Tower Operation Company, said that it was because of the continuous "skin exchange and color" that the iron lady was youth.

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The Eiffel Tower Tower is built with forging iron. If it is replicated regularly, this material has a long life. But in fact, several factors will damage this metal, such as rust and pollution from the city. Therefore, since the birth of the tower, the designer Gustav Eiffel pays special attention to the life of the tower and protects it with several layers of paint. He wrote in the book that paint is the basic element of metal protection. It is particularly important to the tower because many components are small and thin in size, thin, and often exposed to bad weather.

The Eiffel Tower has many different "skin tones" so far. "Venice Red" is the painting color used by the Eiffel Tower during the assembly period from 1887 to 1888. But in May 1889, on the eve of the opening ceremony of the Paris World Expo, workers painted a thick layer of brown -red paint for it. Architect Gattill believes that brown -red stood out in Paris in Paris, which allows the tower to stand out in Paris, which is the main building material, and also forms a clever echo with the entire Paris. In addition, paint workers also use two layers of "Venice Red" and a layer of brown red to create a progressive effect from the bottom of the tower to the tower to the tower, so that this behemoth can better integrate into the landscape surrounding it.

In 1892, the Eiffel Tower ushered in the first "polishing beauty" in life. While repairing 2.5 million rivets and 18,000 parts, it replaced the previous brown red with a brighter color. After "wear" for 7 years, the Eiffel Tower was renovated again when the 1900 World Expo. The color disappears, from the bottom orange to the light yellow, the color gradually sings the protagonist. This time the project also laid the benchmark for the official cycle for re -painting and maintenance every 7 years. The important turning point of the history of Eiffel Tower paint was in 1907. At that time, Gustav Eiffel decided to make the tower "bright" and brushed its whole body with brown -yellow paint. In the subsequent paintings, brown -yellow paint was retained.

The Eiffel Tower became brown -red in 1954 (slightly different from the 1889 brown -red in 1889). At that time, the "iron lady" installed on the top of the lighthouse had become the real landmark of Paris. This brown -red paint has been maintained for nearly 15 years. Since 1968, the 324 -meter -high Eiffel Tower has never changed the paint color, and has become a well -known "standard brown Eiffel Tower" that has continued to this day. From 1968 to the present, about 25 high -empty paint workers, the total area of ​​the brush of about 25 square meters of tower is 250,000 square meters, and the amount of paint is about 60 tons.

Today, the 20 -time painting color is the same brownish yellow paint as 1907, which reflects the "century return" of the tower color in some sense. Choosing this brown -yellow color that is very close to the golden color can be used to pay tribute to the Olympic gold medal in addition to the "golden light" of the tower. Because the previous paint contains lead, the re -painting tower has also implemented stricter sanitary standards. In addition, since the new environmentally friendly paint will not be attached to the surface of too cold or humid, and the brushes are also limited by temperature and humidity changes. The total time -consuming project is expected to be between 1 and a half to 3 years. In the opinion of Blanko Royvo, general manager of the Eiffel Tower Operation Company, from the transformation of "iron lady" to "golden lady", under the premise of complying with the progress of color progress from low to high color, The brown -yellow tower against the blue sky will show a more metal -reduced age -reducing effect. (Lu Xian)

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