Panoramic views: The i360 is the thinnest ‘tall tower’ in the world.
‘London Eye on Sea’, the 138m “vertical pier” on Brighton’s seafront opens to the public on Thursday, August 4, 2016, after 12 years after in development.
Officially called ‘The British Airways i360′, the tower cost £46m to build and will be the highest viewing platform in Britain outside of London.
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It’s the highest observation tower in Great Britain outside of London, and the thinnest tall tower on Earth given that the pole is just four metres wide.
You can go up the “vertical pier” from Thursday August 4th.
Officially called ‘The British Airways i360′, the towering attraction is Brighton’s answer to the London Eye.
It cost £46m to build and will be the highest viewing platform in Britain outside of London.
The husband and wife architectural team behind the tower also designed the London Eye. Architects David Marks and Julia Barfield explained, “Built at the landward end of Brighton’s historic West Pier, British Airways i360 is a modern day vertical pier which invites visitors to ‘walk on air’ and gain a new perspective on the city, just as the West Pier invited Victorian society to ‘walk on water’.”
The huge tower has been dubbed the ‘London-On-Sea’ tower
Panoramic views: The i360 is the thinnest ‘tall tower’ in the world.
Travelling at 0.4m/second, the trip up and down takes 20 minutes in the daytime and 30 minutes in the evening when a bar is available to passengers.
I can see the sea: The tower offers unrivaled views of Brighton.
Tickets cost from £13.50 for adults and from £6.75 for children, with under 4s free.
The ‘vertical pier’, known officially as the British Airways i360, gives passengers a 26 mile view when they enter the circular pod that takes them 138 m up a steel pole into the sky.
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