His most noteworthy project in Asia is a bridge spanning the Rach Lang River in Saigon.
His most noteworthy project in Asia is a bridge spanning the Rach Lang River in Saigon. The wife of Luis I was the namesake of his bridge over the Douro in Porto, Portugal; like many of his trademark bridges, that structure, the Pia Maria Bridge, was an arched metallic railway bridge. For a 1900 exhibition, he created a popular beehive-shaped rotunda known as La Ruche. He also had success designing the cupola for the Nice Observatory, though his career was hurt by his ties to the corrupt Ferdinand Lesseps in a failed project to build locks for a Panama Canal. FTP, identify this French architect who worked with Frederic Bartholdi on the Statue of Liberty and lent his name to a certain tower in Paris.
His most noteworthy project in Asia is a bridge spanning the Rach Lang River in Saigon.
Gustave {Eiffel}