London: the London Eye

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British Airways London EyeBehind the highest panoramic wheel in the world there is a great history about its conception and realization.
This wheel was designed first in the minds of its two creators, architets David Marks and Julia Bartfield, indeed on the table of their kitchen their wrote dawn first drafts of the wheel.
The two architets attended to a competition in order to invent something which should have been represented the almost gone millennium. Unfortunately nobody won the contest and the idea was put aside.
David and Julia still believed that their dream could became reality so they begun on their own to put together pieces to built the wheel, attracting attentions from the english press and from the British Airways, which wanted to became a partner.
Nowadays that wheel is become the highest ever built.
Over 1700 persons from over 5 different countries partecipated to its realization, every part had been created starting from a draft.
Today the British Airways London Eye is reality and it is the way as all the world look at London!
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