In 1889 , Paris unveiled the magnificent Eiffel Tower . It was a worldwide sensation . London , meanwhile , was gullible with enviousness . Not about to be outdone , city official announced a competition for a wondrous repository of its own , and revealed 68 of the entries in ashowcase catalog .
Most of these designs are pretty bonkers , and thanks toPublic Domain Review , which has published the booklet in its entirety , we can now see every one of them . One calls for an aerial dependency with hanging vegetable gardens and a one - 12th scale of measurement replica of the Great Pyramind on the top . Another looks like the Roman Colosseum twist upside down . Most of them are almost rip - offs of the Eiffel Tower , the very structure the contention was responding to .
In the final stage , entry phone number 37 plan by Stewart , McLaren , and Dunn won the 500 greaseball trophy for their design for a tug that , alas , still calculate strikingly interchangeable to its Paris counterpart . It called for a 1,200 - metrical foot oriental - style sword tower with panoramic prospect , and three different stage . The first stage was to be 20,000 square base , including an octagonal central G. Stanley Hall , and a 90 - bedroom hotel . The second would have an additional 10,000 square - foot hall , and the third would have a restaurant and other vague amenities . Construction begin in 1892 but block up short at 154 feet , when the project go out of money . And there the botched structured remained , known as the London Stump or Watkins Folly , until 1904 when it was demolished for safety reasons . In 1923 , Wembly Stadium was establish over the website .
So in malice of the architectural gems go around about London , it never got its answer to the Eiffel Tower . Perhaps explain theShard . [ PublicDomainReviewviaItsNiceThatviaDesignTaxi ]
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