"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...