Watkin's Tower Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, Watkin invited Gustave Eiffel himself to design the tower, but the Frenchman declined – replying that if he designed the tower, the French people "would not think me so good a Frenchman as I hope I am." An architectural design competition was held in 1890, and a total of 68 designs were submitted. Some of the more exotic proposals included a £1m tower inspired by the Tower of Pisa; a structure with "a captive parachute to hold four persons"; and a tower with a spiral railway climbing its exterior. One design included a 1/12-scale model
Observation tower is a support pillar of the aerial tramway in Barcelona. It is equipped with an observation deck. The Blackpool Tower (still standing) and the New Brighton Tower (demolished) resembled smaller versions of the Eiffel Tower, while Watkin's Tower at Wembley, if completed, would have been taller than the Eiffel Tower. The i360 in Brighton is a 162-metre (531 ft) observation tower and the world’s first vertical cable car. Enger Tower, Reunion Tower, Seattle's Space Needle, Gatlinburg, Tennessee's Space Needle and the Tower of the Americas are some examples of observation towers in the United States. Joachim Kleinmanns: Schau ins Land.