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Renders #2

The four legs are linked together:

You may recognize some things happening in the foreground: again there's some excavation work (can as well be seen on historical pics). I guess the holes will be filled with some flower soil afterwards - the space will host some greenery.

One of the old photos showed some interesting perspective - the photographer standing on one of the scaffolds shooting to the opposite leg. I tried to copy that:

Notice Montmartre and Sacré Coeur on the left as well as the Invalides on the right. The Centre Orthodox with its golden cupolas is a "goof" indeed - it didn't exist at those times, but I thought it would be nicer than having some blank space there...

Now the Tower gets its first floor:

Being a teenager I visited Paris for some days. Of course we had a look at the Eiffel Tower as well, and I remember myself laying on the ground between the legs, looking upward, having this huge mass of iron above my head - most impressive! I couldn't resist doing a render this style.
Of course I should have waited for the Tower being complete, but I may repete this render from time to time:

Back to history: Work was done during 12 hours a day in summer and 9 hours a day in winter. Really hard life, so one day the workers went on strike. To get them back to work Mr. Eiffel installed a canteen on the first floor:

Let's have a look at the South East: the basements for the Expo halls are partially finished, and construction work gradually starts...

The Tower is steadily growing upward. You may notice they started to assemble the Arc Décorative:

Another historical perspective shows the whole ground having the half-finished Expo skeletons in the background. The photographer should have been located somewhere at the Trocadero arcades: