Guidebook [antikvár]

TD o CD O In the closing years of the last century, there was a huge demand for monuments and events to commemorate the millennium. Two visionary architects, David Marks and Julia Barfield, came up with an astonishingly simple, yet audacious idea: they wanted to give London a structure which was physically beautiful, technologically innovative, and which would also allow visitors the chance to see one of the world's greatest cities from a new and exciting perspective. They decided a wheel was an ideal symbol for London in the new millennium. The wheel is a universally recognised symbol of time and regeneration. It's a powerful metaphor of the turning of a century and a millennium and introduces a new shape and sense of order into the chaotic city that is London. The idea isn't entirely without precedent - Paris' most famous landmark, the Eiffel Tower, is a celebratory structure (erected to commemorate the 1889 Paris Exhibition) - but what was new is the technology, and the Interactive nature of the experience. Who would have thought that such a simple idea could be so stunningly successful?