LONDON, March 7 — Floating high above the London skyline aboard her most famous creation, architect Julia Barfield is still giddy that the London Eye Ferris wheel has become a...
Azam Baki: Ismail Sabri questioning as MACC suspect in money laundering probe now on March 13 as he’s still on MCPedestrians walk along Embankment backdropped by The London Eye , in London, on February 25, 2025. Floating high above the London skyline aboard her most famous creation, architect Julia Barfield said she never expected the London Eye to take off as a design icon.
Stamped on souvenirs, sketched by street artists and snapped in an endless stream of selfies, the Eye has become nearly as big a landmark as Big Ben.Barfield said she and co-architect David Marks, her late husband, spent years scrambling to get funding for the ambitious project, while several nail-biting construction hitches threatened to derail their vision.
But the two architects rallied support and decided to build it anyway, rushing to complete the project in the years before the turn of the millennium. The architects had always hoped to build a feeling of excitement into the structure. Barfield said she wanted visitors to say: “Wow, how did they do that?”
At one point, parts were floated up the River Thames and builders worked on the water to assemble the giant wheel.
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