Brighton i360 construction update.

[Triggaaar]

The hydraulic block has gone so here's the full pole and a close up of the texture of the cladding.

Come on JS, you're capable of straightening your photo.

 

[Jack Straw]

Come on JS, you're capable of straightening your photo.

Funnily enough, I did think about it, but found that moving my laptop slightly to one side was quicker and easier!

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

174 foot versus 531 foot.*



* according to a well known but potentially unreliable website.

531 ft is 162m, which is the height of a 55 storey building. I can't help feeling that this structure will be shut whenever the wind picks up. At 55 storeys on the top of a stick, the viewing platform is going to SWAY big time in moderate winds and probably turn into a giant metronome in high winds

 

[Triggaaar]

531 ft is 162m, which is the height of a 55 storey building. I can't help feeling that this structure will be shut whenever the wind picks up. At 55 storeys on the top of a stick, the viewing platform is going to SWAY big time in moderate winds and probably turn into a giant metronome in high winds

It'll have to close because people will be feeling sick, like the Millennium Bridge.

 

[Bold Seagull]

531 ft is 162m, which is the height of a 55 storey building. I can't help feeling that this structure will be shut whenever the wind picks up. At 55 storeys on the top of a stick, the viewing platform is going to SWAY big time in moderate winds and probably turn into a giant metronome in high winds

I think this is true, I heard the engineers did their initial site visits on calm days, they won't have known about the winds we get.

 

[symyjym]

i-pod

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

I knew I'd seen the design of the iPod before

 

[MattBackHome]

Where is the pod being built? Looks like it's actually flying.

 

[symyjym]

Where is the pod being built? Looks like it's actually flying.

France at Poma factory.

Putting it together, then dismantling it to send here in, I think, 28 segment sections.

 

[The Oldman]

Where is the pod being built? Looks like it's actually flying.

France. Once assembled it will be split up and brought to Brighton by lorry.

NB Beaten to it!

 

[Bold Seagull]

I think it is looking seriously cool!

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Lovely...anyone know if it will 'feel' like a cable car (love)/lift or a boat/wobble (seasick) while moving...

 

[Bold Seagull]

Lovely...anyone know if it will 'feel' like a cable car (love)/lift or a boat/wobble (seasick) while moving...

Science behind the i360. Worth a read.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

The BRITISH AIRWAYS i360.

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Rolls off the tongue easier than the American Express Elite Football Performance Centre I suppose

 

[Bold Seagull]

The BRITISH AIRWAYS i360.

Rolls off the tongue easier than the American Express Elite Football Performance Centre I suppose

Everything has to have an 'i' in front of it.

c360 would have been a lot better.....see....sea....c what I have done there....

 

[MattBackHome]

The BRITISH AIRWAYS i360.

[TWEET]669813327984504832[/TWEET]


Rolls off the tongue easier than the American Express Elite Football Performance Centre I suppose

Good news this.

 

[Hamilton]

Everything has to have an 'i' in front of it.

c360 would have been a lot better.....see....sea....c what I have done there....

colapse
crash
costly
carbuncle
corrupt

seriously, I actually love it.

 

[Jack Straw]

Took these yesterday.

 

[goldstone]

Very very ugly big blot on the Brighton seafront.

 

[Megazone]

To be fair, it does suit the grey weather.