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DESIGN NEWS Danish harbour baths, the Louis Vuitton Foundation and a tower made of mushrooms
● The platform ascends to a height of 138m, offering 360 degree views for up to 25 miles around Brighton Brighton’s i360 fi nally underway
Work has begun on Brighton's, i360 tower, after the project secured £40m (US$68m, €50.4m) in funding eight years after it was initially proposed. The team which designed and constructed the London Eye is reuniting to work on the project. Designed by London-based Marks
Barfi eld Architects, the i360 Tower – described as a 'vertical pier' – gained approval earlier this year from Brighton and Hove City Council, which provided £36.2m (US$61.4m, €45.7m) in loans, with a further
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Project i360 Location: Brighton, UK Design: Marks Barfi eld Architects
£4m (US$6.8m, €5m) supplied by the project investment fund Local Enterprise Partnership Coast to Capital (LEPCC). Dutch contractor Hollandia, France- based Poma and Jacobs Engineering Group – who all worked on the London Eye – are teaming up with local contractor JT Mackley and
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structural engineers Hemsley Orrell Partnership on the build. David Marks and Julia Barfi eld
are investing an additional £6m (US$10.2m, €7.6m) of their own money into the project, which is set to open in the third quarter of 2016. Standing at 175m (574ft) high, the
i360 Tower will allow views for 25 miles (40.2km) on a clear day. Visitors will ascend the tower in a moving pod, which will take 20 minutes to rise to the top, before descending using a vertical cable car.
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