Gateway Arch Documentary - America's Tallest Monument - DocuTV2018
The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot (192 m) monolith in St. Louis in the united state state of Missouri. Outfitted in stainless steel as well as constructed in the type of an inverted, heavy catenary arc, it is the world's highest arc, [4] the tallest monument in the Western Hemisphere, as well as Missouri's highest easily accessible structure. Built as a monument to the westward expansion of the Usa, [5] it is the focal point of the Jefferson National Expansion Remembrance and has actually come to be an internationally popular symbol of St. Louis.
The arch sits at the site of St. Louis' starting on the west bank of the Mississippi River.
The Gateway Arch was designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen in 1947; construction began on February 12, 1963, and was completed on October 28, 1965, for $13 million (equivalent to $180 million in 2013). The monument opened to everyone on June 10, 1967.
Saarinen's team included himself as designer, J. Henderson Barr as associate designer, and Dan Kiley as landscape architect, as well as Lily Swann Saarinen as sculptor and Alexander Girard as painter. In the first stage of the competition, Carl Milles recommended Saarinen to change the bases of each leg to triangulars as opposed to squares. Saarinen said that he "worked at first with mathematical shapes, but finally adjusted it according to the eye." At submission, Saarinen's plans outlined the arc at 509 feet (155 m) high and 592 feet (180 m) vast from center to center of the triangle bases.
On September 1, 1947, submissions for the first stage were received by the jury. The submissions were classified by numbers only, and the names of the designers were kept anonymous. Upon four days of deliberation, the jury narrowed down the 172 submissions, that included Saarinen's father Eliel, to five finalists, as well as announced the corresponding numbers to the media on September 27. Saarinen's design (# 144) was among the finalists, and remarks composed on it consisted of "pertinent, gorgeous, perhaps motivated would be the appropriate word" (Roland Wank) and "an abstract kind peculiarly delighted in its importance" (Charles Nagel). Hare wondered about the expediency of the design but appreciated the thoughtfulness behind it. [24] Local St. Louis architect Harris Armstrong was also one of the finalists. [28] The secretary who sent out the telegrams informing finalists of their advancement mistakenly sent one to Eliel rather than Eero. The family celebrated with champagne, and two hours later, a competition representative called to deal with the blunder. Eliel "'broke out a second bottle of champagne' to toast his son.".
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