Conceived, designed and guided to completion by the husband and wife team of David Marks and Julia Barfield, the London Eye is often quoted as a two-year project completed in just 15 months. As this book demonstrates, however, even this does little justice to the incredible dedication and perseverance of the truly international team of designers, project managers, engineers, steel fabricators, capsule manufacturers, systems specialists and the many, many others who devoted themselves to the project’s completion. Combining extended quotations from all the major players involved in the project with a detailed photographic record of the construction process, Reinventing the Wheel not only explains the main principles of the project’s design, but also how it was successfully erected and brought to fruition.
- Specification
- Softbound only
- 204 pages
- 280 x 297 mm portrait
- 440 illustrations
- 190 colour photographs
- English only
- Published April 2002
ISBN 1-873200-31-5
