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.
Blink and you’ll miss it: Mattias Brown has brought the “Portrait of Sidney Wells’ into the 21st century.(Mattias Brown/ Tate Collective)
A group of talented film makers and artists from Tate Collective used GIFS to give a modern twist to paintings dated from the 1840s to the 1890s which were housed in Tate Britain.
Tate Collective artists organise events and create their own work for the events at the world-famous gallery.
What’s that on your nose? ‘Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander’, painted in 1872-4 by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, is transformed with a swarm of butterflies – although Miss Cicely herself does not look too happy about how things have turned out. (Nicolas Monterrat/ Tate Collectives)It’s party time! Film makers and artists have been inspired to find fresh ways of reinventing works from the 19th century. (Tate Collective)
Large waves break against the dyke Monday at the port of Boulogne, France.
The death toll from the major Atlantic storm rises to at least eleven across northern Europe on Monday.
Four people were killed in Britain, three in Germany, two in Netherlands, one in France and one in Denmark.
According to Britain’s Met Office national weather centre, winds reached 99 miles (159 kilometres) per hour on the Isle of Wight off the southern English coast.
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Waves crash onto the cliffs surrounding Porthleven, Cornwall, southwest England, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. Forecasters say a severe storm will hit the southern half of Britain later Sunday, bringing heavy rains and gusts of 60 to 80 miles per hour (100 to 130 kilometers per hour, with the potential to cause widespread and severe disruption from falling trees, power cuts and flooding. (AP Photo/PA, Ben Birchall)
A fallen tree blocks a road after overnight storm in Brighton, southern England on October 28, 2013 (AFP Photo/Glyn Kirk)
Engineers look at the damage as a crane working on redevelopment at the Cabinet Office in Whitehall, near to Downing Street in London, was brought down by high winds, Monday, Oct. 28, 2013. A major storm with hurricane-force gusts is lashing southern Britain, parts of France and Netherlands, causing flooding and travel delays with the cancellation of many flights and trains. Weather forecasters say it is one of the worst storms to hit Britain in years. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
A man tries to rescue a tree during a period of strong winds in Duesseldorf, Germany, 28 October 2013. Three people were killed by falling trees in England and the Netherlands 28 October as a powerful storm continued to wend its way up both sides of the Channel, disrupting life in large parts of Britain and continental Europe. (EPA/MARTIN GERTEN)
Theo Harcourt, a 13-year-old student, jumps over a fallen tree as he makes his way to school in Islington, north London October 28, 2013, after strong storm winds and rain battered southern parts of England and Wales early on Monday, forcing flight cancellations, disrupting trains and closing roads and major bridges before the start of rush-hour. Local media dubbed the storm “St. Jude”, after the patron saint of lost causes who is traditionally celebrated on October 28. REUTERS/Olivia Harris
A fallen tree blocks the road after the St. Jude storm in Islington, north London October 28, 2013. Strong storm winds and rain battered southern parts of England and Wales early on Monday, forcing flight cancellations, disrupting trains and closing roads and major bridges before the start of rush-hour. REUTERS/Olivia Harris
Many Europeans are facing winter’s icy grip on lands that should be thawing in springtime temperatures by now, with Britain on track for the coldest March since 1962.
Thousands who are affected by the flood are still sweeping the water out of their homes in Britain.
But now, Britain is facing another disaster, great blizzards and super cold winter.
Forecasters warn temperatures are about to plunge to the lowest in 100 years, with snow storms or blizzards and ice expected to cause travel chaos and deadly road conditions when temperatures in some areas could fall to minus 6°c and as low as minus 20°c (4°f) through December and January due to clear sky and strong northerly winds.
Tonight’s cold snap is expected to last until the end of the week and temperatures could fall to as low as minus 3°c (27°f) in some places, with snow already falling in the Pennines.
In Saltburn, North Yorkshire, northerly winds have become so strong that they are pushing water back up a cliff.
A.dramatic scenes of the water falling over the cliffs. Water pouring over the edge of Huntcliff in Saltburn, North Yorkshire, was pushed back over the edge by strong northerly winds. (MailOnline/DailyMail)
Mirror News reported that Weather Channel meteorologist Leon Brown said bitter northerly winds would move south today leading to a widespread frost across much of the country.
He said that, “The east will be seeing some of the lowest temperatures of minus 4°c to minus 6°c. During Friday, showers over the north will move south across Scotland with sleet and snow. These showers will continue south on Friday evening giving a covering of snow to the Pennines and possibly the north Midlands and even East Anglia. It will be very icy by Saturday morning.”
MailOnline reported that the cold, drier spell that starts tonight could be only a brief respite from the rain and more heavy showers are expected to return early next week, causing more misery to those trying to combat flood damage.
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Strong northerly wind blows water upwards.
Walkers rap up warm as they wander across the beach in front of the dramatic scenes of the water falling over the cliffs.
Snow on the hills: While much of Britain suffers flooding there was snow on the northern Pennines in a sign of the cold snap to come.
Now the rain has gone the UK is expecting much colder weather and snow. A walker enjoys the view from Blencathra in the Lake District.
Reuters/Reuters – Holiday caravans lie in floodwater in St Asaph, north Wales, November 28, 2012. Dozens of properties were flooded in St Asaph after the River Elwy burst its banks yesterday. REUTERS/Andrew Winning
Britain starts to clean-up after heavy rains and high winds caused bad flooding in the midlands, west and north of Britain.
At least 3 people were killed in the flood.
The flood is disrupting parts of the road and rail network, and damaging buildings as heavy rain falls on north-east England and north Wales.
Heavy rain caused a landslide in Whitby, North Yorks that damaged some houses and five houses will be demolished within two days.
Five of the houses of the 150-year-old row of terraced houses in Whitby, North Yorkshire, will have to be torn down after their gardens became saturated by rainfall and slipped away last night. Another two at the end of the property also faced demolition but it is thought they will now be allowed to stay. (MailOnline/DailyMail)
One places that was worst-hit by the flood is the small city of St Asaph, North Wales.
Experts warned there could be more downpours in certain areas early next week and 140 flood warnings are still in place across England and Wales.
The South East may be facing further flooding as river levels continued to rise.
The River Thames at Oxford had reached its maximum and downstream towns such as Reading, Berks, and Sunbury in Surrey were on flood alert.
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Waves crash against the sea wall at Sandsend, near Whitby
Flood waters come close to covering houses in St Asaph, Denbighshire
Telegraph reader John Hampson writes: To the left is the River Calder. To the right is the main A-road between Hebden Bridge and Todmorden. In the middle, under water, is the recently built 10-foot high flood defence wall. Send us your weather pictures: mypic@telegraph.co.uk
Picture: John Hampson
This picture taken on November 25, 2012 shows floodwaters at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire (AFP Photo / Justin Tallis)
A Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) crew make their way through flood waters in St. Asaph, North Wales, Tuesday Nov. 27, 2012, after the town flooded overnight. (AP Photo/PA, Dave Thompson)
A property stands surrounded by floodwater near the the River Severn in Tewkesbury, England, Tuesday Nov. 27, 2012. Thousands of drivers and residents face further chaos today after heavy rain continued to fall across Britain overnight. (AP Photo/PA, Tim Ireland)
The Google Streetview shows how the building looked before the riots, (GOOGLE).The landmark Carpetright building in Tottenham High Road was set ablaze on Saturday night, (PA).Fire crews were still working at the scene on Sunday morning morning, when all that remained was a shell,(REUTERS).
Jewellery store, High Road, Tottenham:
The High Road shop was on the corner with Dowsett Road, (GOOGLE).A jewellery shop and the flats behind it were gutted after being set alight, (PA).
Solicitors’ offices, High Road, Tottenham:
A beautiful row of building before the riot, (GOOGLE).A solicitor's office further along the High Road was also targeted and set ablaze, (PA).
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