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Title	London Eye
Alternate Title	Merlin Entertainments London Eye
View	Context view looking east across the Thames River
Work Type	built works amusement rides Ferris wheels
Style/Period	Twentieth century
Creator Name	Bailey, Nic, 1951-
Creator Nationality	British
Date.Creator Birth	1951
Contributors to Project	Marks Barfield Architects (British architectural firm, established ca. 1995); Nic Bailey (British architect, born 1951) and others
Subject.work	cityscape contemporary (1960 to present) engineering and industrial design manufacturing aerial views
Subject.image	Boats and boating Rivers
Country	United Kingdom
City	London
State/Province	England
Location.Notes	Lambeth, western end of Jubilee Gardens, on the South Bank of the River Thames
Architectural Material	steel; glass; LED lighting
Technique	construction (assembling)
Dates	1998-1999 (creation)
Photographer	Gilchrist, Scott
Date Photographed	5/25/2007
Subject Information	The Merlin Entertainments London Eye (commonly the London Eye, or Millennium Wheel, formerly the British Airways London Eye) is a giant 135-metre (443 ft) tall Ferris wheel situated on the banks of the River Thames in Central London, England. It is the tallest Ferris wheel in Europe, and the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom, visited by over 3.5 million people annually. The wheel carries 32 sealed and air-conditioned egg-shaped passenger capsules, attached to its external circumference. Each 10 tonne capsule holds 25 people. It rotates at 26 cm (10 in) per second (about 0.9 km/h or 0.6 mph) so that one revolution takes about 30 minutes. The wheel was designed by architects David Marks, Julia Barfield, Malcolm Cook, Mark Sparrowhawk, Steven Chilton, Frank Anatole and Nic Bailey. Consulting engineers Tony Gee & Partners designed the foundation works.
Information.source	Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Credit Line	copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)

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