Tussauds also announced the acquisition house for
rent in London of the entire one-third interests of British
Airways and the Marks Barfield family in the Eye, as well
as the outstanding debt to BA. These agreements gave Tussauds
100% ownership of the Eye and resolved the debt from the Eye's
construction loan from British Airways, which stood at more
than ?150 million by mid-2005 and had been increasing at 25%
per annum.[12]
House for rent in London - Critical reception
Sir Richard Rogers, winner of the 2007 Pritzker Architecture
Prize, wrote of the London Eye in a book about the project,
“ The Eye has done for London what the Eiffel Tower did for
Paris, which house for rent in London is to give
it a symbol and to let people climb above the city and look
back down on it. Not just specialists or rich people, but
everybody. That's the beauty of it: it is public and accessible,
and it is in a great position at the heart of London.[13]
”
Writing for G2 in an article from August 2007, Steve Rose
described the Eye as follows,
“ The Eye... exists in a category of its own.... It essentially
has to fulfil house for rent in London only one function,
and what a brilliantly inessential function it is: to lift
people up from the ground, take them round a giant loop in
the sky, then put them back down where they started. That
is all it needs to do, and thankfully, that is all it does.[14]
”
[edit] Predecessor
A predecessor to the London Eye, called the "Great Wheel
of London", was built in house for rent in London Earl's
Court in 1895 and was capable of carrying 1,600 people. It
closed in 1906, and was demolished in 1907.[15]
[edit] Capsule sight seeing
A souvenir photograph of passengers in the capsule is taken
automatically (also for security purposes) house for rent
in London as they approach the end of the journey.
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