Print Size: 8" x 10" (Frame Size: 16" x 20") Architect: Juste Lisch
The clock tower of the Gare Champ de Mars was the most prominent feature of the railroad station built in 1878 to accommodate the Exposition Universelle in Paris. Architect Juste Lisch, a student of the great French Rationalists Henri Labrouste and Viollet-le-Duc, used new technologies to erect an iron shed with enormous windows between red brick walls, its facade relieved by polychrome tiles and richly patterned bricks. The whole builds above the cornice to the decorative tower -- a crowning architectural vertical on a long low industrial structure -- where every element is framed in the color and gaiety of the world's fair.
