Brighton Hove Beach

Taken from the i360 pod West Pier 150th Anniversary!
Kinda spooky .....

Love the reflection of the West Pier in the water...

Did you miss it ?
Showing again tonight :)

Cannot watch this for too long feeling dizzy....lol :)

Just down the road from our luxury group holiday accommodation.
Perhaps my guests will enjoy going up :)
I suffer vertigo unfortunately :(

"We’re excited to announce a spectacular community event on Brighton beach. We want you to join us in celebrating the opening of British Airways i360!
Fireworks and a lighting display on the British Airways i360 tower, will take place on the evening of our opening day, Thursday 4th August. "

Great morphing effects !

"The British Airways i360, a 162-metre high structure in Brighton costing nearly £50m, is the brainchild of the architects David Marks and Julia Barfield, and is a reprise of the bold entrepreneurial formula that made them famous when they created the London Eye. Like the Eye, it is a self-sustaining business proposition, whereby a profit will be turned for the company that built and runs it, in which Marks and Barfield are major shareholders. Brighton and Hove city council e...xpect to earn more than £1m a year from it, and contributions will also be made to the trust that is still hoping to renew the West Pier. It benefits from a loan from the little-known but useful Public Works Loan Board, but no public subsidy is required.
It stands at the point where the West Pier once joined the land, on axis with the disintegrating metal island that is most of what remains of the old construction. Rather than add to its history of failed attempts at rebuilding, the i360 offers something new, a “vertical pier” in which you can “walk on air” rather than water. It is a stick carrying a glass-walled sliding pod, a giant lollipop on which the sucky bit moves up and down. Rather than the multiple capsules of the London Eye it offers a single large one, big enough for 200 people, from which at its highest point you can see up to 26 miles.
Like the Eye, it is a funfair ride given dignity and respectability by careful detailing and good quality materials, and its scale makes it into a landmark for its city. A convex mirrored underside creates distorted shifting reflections of the surroundings as it rises, again in a tasteful-fairground spirit. Pavilions that flanked the entrance to the original pier have been restored. It is a work of international co-operation, a reverse Babel in which manufacturers from Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Australia found a common language in the making of the i360 out of the cladding, machinery, structure, dampers, pods, glazing and other elements they variously supplied. "
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