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The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch, [5] it is the world's tallest arch [4] and Missouri's tallest accessible structure. Some sources consider it the tallest human-made monument in the Western Hemisphere. [6]
The Gateway Arch, known as the "Gateway to the West," is the tallest structure in Missouri.It was designed by the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and the German-American structural engineer Hannskarl Bandel in 1947 and built between 1963 and October 1965.
Gateway Arch National Park Daniel Urban Kiley (2 September 1912 – 21 February 2004) was an American landscape architect , who worked in the style of modern architecture . [ 1 ] Kiley designed over one-thousand landscape projects including Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis .
St. Louis’ Gateway Arch is part of a nearly 91-acre national park that pays tribute to American history.
The Old St. Louis County Courthouse was built as a combination federal and state courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Missouri's tallest habitable building from 1864 to 1894, it is now part of Gateway Arch National Park and operated by the National Park Service for historical exhibits and events.
It was Bandel who modified the catenary arch shape for Eero Saarinen's Gateway Arch project. When Saarinen tried to demonstrate his desired shape with a chain suspended in his hands, he couldn't achieve the slightly elongated, "soaring" effect he wanted; Bandel asked for the chain, came back in a few days, and delighted the architect by producing Saarinen's curve, as if by magic.