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During the 1867 Exposition Universelle, Paris opened Baron Haussmann's newly rebuilt sewer network to public tours for the first time, turning Eugène Belgrand's engineering into a civic showcase.

Paris unveiled La Canopée, a sweeping glass-and-steel roof capping the decade-long, roughly 800 million euro renovation of the Forum des Halles shopping and transit hub. Mayor Anne Hidalgo led the inauguration of the structure designed by architects Patrick Berger and Jacques Anziutti.

Paris inaugurated the Austerlitz basin, a giant underground stormwater tank built to stop sewage overflow into the Seine in time for Olympic swimming events.

Paris unveiled the Eiffel Tower in its original 1907 gold-brown shade in June 2024, weeks before hosting the Olympic Games, after a repaint cut back from about a third of the ironwork to roughly 5 per cent.