Second Verse, Same as the First

I want to thank smofbabe for the pointer to this one. I'm blogging it so I can find the link later. Apparently the Tour Eiffel is getting a facelift for its 120th birthday. And Parisians are some of them up in arms because the new viewing platform being added will mess up the familiar silhouette, and with it, the Paris skyline.

Ah, every thing old is new again. After all, when the old girl first got built, Parisians deprecated her as an eyesore. Guy de Maupassant said he ate daily in the restaurant, because it was the one place in Paris where he couldn't see the tower.

Me, I think the lacy, curving structures of the proposed platform expansion are quite pretty. And being beautiful by dint of being structurally necessary, very much in keeping with the spirit of the original. And hey, the Tower was only supposed to be temporary, anyway. I think 120 years is a pretty good temporary run.

Update: Whoops. Apparently the redesigns weren't officially sanctioned, and no changes are scheduled. Back to the salt mines people, nothing to see here.

Note to Myself

While they also have more expensive covered pavilions ("gazebos," so-called), Target's Home Tivoli model seems in keeping with the lines of the front of the house, and at $150, is possibly half as much as the other models we were contemplating. The question is, do they have it in store? Hmm.