"It's about celebrating London," says architect Julia Barfield who designed the London Eye It's a perfect day ... reducing their design to a pastiche Ferris wheel. "We would have been the laughing ...

The London Eye (the giant Ferris wheel found in many London panoramas) is on the River Thames and meant to deliver great views – not a thrilling ride. It circles around slowly, offering an ...

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) announced plans on Tuesday to construct the 'Mumbai Eye,' a giant Ferris wheel modeled after the famous London Eye. The proposed project will be ...

When the London Eye lost its position as the world’s tallest Ferris wheel in 2006, it did so to the 525ft (160m) Star of Nanchang in the Chinese city of the same name – and fell to third when ...

point to Vienna’s Giant Ferris Wheel -also British designed - which has been going strong since 1897. By the time of its Silver Jubilee the London Eye will have carried 85 million passengers ...

About 3.5 million people pay from 29 pounds ($37.17) per ticket to ride the London Eye each year. Its popularity has inspired dozens of copycat wheels in cities around the world, but at 135 metres ...

The London Eye is celebrating 25 years of towering over the capital's skyline. Over 85 million visitors from across the globe have journeyed across the gigantic Ferris wheel since the millennium. (AP ...

architect Julia Barfield is still giddy that the London Eye ferris wheel has become a symbol of the city. The initial priority was finding a breathtaking way to see the British capital ...

Kolkata: After Howrah bridge and Vidyasagar Setu, Kolkata can now look forward to a new landmark on the Hooghly riverside: a colossal Ferris wheel, much like the London Eye overlooking the Thames.

The first contractor insisted on cost-cutting changes to the capsules that did not fit with the architects' vision, reducing their design to a pastiche Ferris ... Eye on to the London skyline ...