From the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower to the Sagrada Família, the Empire State Building, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Sydney Opera House — symbols of a new age built in iron, steel and concrete
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The first stone of the Basilica of the Holy Family was laid in Barcelona. Gaudí, who took over the next year, gave it his life, and more than 140 years on it is still being built.
The Brooklyn Bridge, linking Manhattan and Brooklyn, opened — an early suspension bridge with steel cables and the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.
The Statue of Liberty, paid for by public subscription in France to mark the centennial of American independence, was raised on an island at the mouth of New York Harbor and dedicated.
A 300-metre iron tower built for the Paris Exposition Universelle marking the centenary of the French Revolution was completed — for forty years the tallest structure in the world.
In Depression-era New York the 102-storey, 381-metre Empire State Building went up in little over a year — for nearly forty years the tallest building in the world.
The Golden Gate Bridge across the mouth of San Francisco Bay opened; its 1,280-metre main span made it the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.
Designed by the Danish architect Jørn Utzon, the Sydney Opera House, with roofs like spread sails, opened after fourteen years of construction.
French structural engineer who designed the iron framework inside the Statue of Liberty and built the Eiffel Tower in Paris in 1889
Catalan architect whose buildings echo the curves of nature, who gave the last forty-odd years of his life to the Sagrada Família
