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This Engineer Wanted You to Drive Into the Sky Above Paris

Lost Masterpieces

For the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris, engineer Eugène Freyssinet wanted to build a huge cone-like structure, its most distinctive feature a road that wound tightly around its core.

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