Title & Author:

Genesis of the London Eye & Beyond / [presented by] Julia Barfield (Marks Barfield Architects).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1999.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (42 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
David Marks & Julia Barfield, 1999 -- "Bridge For The Future" Poster -- Battlebridge Basin -- Section Drawing Of The World Sea Centre -- Liverpool Water Sports Centre -- Computer Montage Of The Millennium Wheel (The London Eye), Then 500' High With 60 Capsules -- Drawing Of The Millennium Wheel (The London Eye) Showing The Cantilevered Structure -- Labelled Drawing Of The Millennium Wheel (The London Eye), Now 135' High, With 32 Capsules -- Drawing Of Truss Arrangements On The Millennium Wheel (The London Eye) -- Drawing Of The Hub & Spindle Of The Millennium Wheel (The London Eye) -- Drawing Of The Mitsubishi Capsule Design Of The Millennium Wheel (The London Eye) -- Computer Images Of Capsules For The Millennium Wheel (The London Eye) -- Long Section Through Capsule For The Millennium Wheel (The London Eye) -- Raising The Millennium Wheel (The London Eye) -- The Millennium Wheel (The London Eye) After Completion -- View From On The Millennium Wheel (The London Eye) -- The Partnership In A Capsule On The Millennium Wheel (The London Eye) -- Skyhouse -- Conservatory For Regent's Park -- Pier For Tate Britain.

Summary:

Julia Barfield and her husband/partner David Marks are the entrepreneurs who dreamed up the idea of a Millennium Wheel, and then created the company to develop, build and operate it - now known as the British Airways London Eye after its backers. Barfield's talk tells the amazing story of the problems and the effort entailed over many years. The design was done in collaboration with Jane Wernick/Ove Arup & Partners. Barfield also describes other work, both before and after the Wheel. Their latest entrepreneurial project is Skyhouse, a cluster of three structurally-connected skyscrapers, which is a residential mixed-use scheme. The partners met while studying at the AA School. In 1975 they worked in Peru designing self-build houses in a "barriada". Then, after a stint respectively for Norman Foster and Richard Rogers they started their own practice in London in 1989.

Subject:

London Eye (London, England)
Architectural design Great Britain.
Design architectural Grande-Bretagne.
Architectural design.
Great Britain.

Added entries:

Barfield, Julia, narrator.

Genesis of the London Eye and Beyond