Thanks!
Looks like a gap in regulations, less than a loophole per se.
Interesting link in the Curbed article, too:
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my addendum to your post would be: in the Western world.
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The times (which can go fuck itself) says that between its opening and 2010 there were 366 suicides in the Eiffel Tower. About four a year. The vessel has been open two years and had four. Maybe if they haven’t pulled it down in 120 years we can make a better comparison.
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This Time article, from 1966
notes:
Despondents in ever-increasing numbers have also turned to the Eiffel Tower as just about the most dramatic jumping-off place in France. With the tower’s suicide rate approaching one a month, the Paris press last year campaigned for anti-suicide barriers around the “cursed monument.” The Eiffel Tower Society, which oversees the structure, obliged by building a 51-ft.-high steel-wire fence around the edge of each of the tower’s three platforms.
To no avail. Within one 24-hour period last month, two persons scaled the barrier and plunged to their deaths. Last week a young Vietnamese man became the tower’s 349th suicide.
So, if we are to combine the Times with Time
between 1966 and 2010, 17 persons died by suicide at the Eiffel Tower. Lamentable, but far safer than the Vessel.
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Don’t you end up hitting a lower level on the way down if you jump from the Eiffel Tower? You don’t hear about a lot of suicides off the Transamerica Pyramid.
The transamerica pyramid does not have a public observation deck let alone an outdoor observation deck.
The last time I was there the highest floor was a boardroom of sorts. And not very big. No windows or doors that open to the outside.
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