London flats to let - Design and construction
Designed by architects David Marks, Julia Barfield, Malcolm
Cook, Mark Sparrowhawk, Steven Chilton and Nic Bailey, the
wheel carries 32 sealed and air-conditioned egg-shaped[4]
passenger capsules, attached to its external circumference,
each capsule London flats to let representing one
of the London Boroughs.[5] Each 10 tonne[1] capsule holds
25 people,[4] who are free to walk around inside the capsule,
though seating is provided. It rotates at 26 cm (10 in) per
second (about 0.9 km/h (0.6 mph) so that one revolution takes
about 30 minutes.
The wheel does not usually stop to take on passengers: the
rotation rate is so slow that they can walk on and off the
London flats to let moving capsules at ground level.[1] It
is, however, stopped to allow disabled or elderly passengers
time to embark and disembark safely.[6]
The rim of the Eye is supported by tie rods and resembles
a huge spoked bicycle wheel, and was depicted as such in a
poster advertising a charity cycle race. The lighting for
the London Eye was redone London flats to let with LED lighting
from Color Kinetics in December 2006 to allow digital control
of the lights as opposed to the manual replacement of gels
over fluorescent tubes.[7]
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