Презентация на тему по английскому языку на тему: London Eye

situated on the banks of the River Thames, in

London, England.

tall and the wheel has a diameter of 120

metres (394 ft).

and the most popular paid tourist attraction in the

United Kingdom, visited by over 3.5 million people annually.

called the British Airways London Eye and then the

Merlin Entertainments London Eye. Since 20 January 2011, its official name is the EDF Energy London Eye following a three-year sponsorship deal.

Borough of Lambeth at the western end of Jubilee

Gardens, on the South Bank of the River Thames between Westminster Bridge and Hungerford Bridge. The site is adjacent to that of the former Dome of Discovery, which was built for the Festival of Britain in 1951.

capsules, designed and supplied by Leitner-Poma, are attached to

the external circumference of the wheel and rotated by electric motors.

weighs 10 tones and holds 25 people, who are

free to walk around inside the capsule, though seating is provided.

per second (about 0.9 km/h or 0.6 mph) so

that one revolution takes about 30 minutes. It does not usually stop to take on passengers; the rotation rate is slow enough to allow passengers to walk on and off the moving capsules at ground level. It is, however, stopped to allow disabled or elderly passengers time to embark and disembark safely.

tie rods and resembles a huge bicycle wheel. The

lighting for the London Eye was redone with LED lighting from Color Kinetics in December 2006 to allow digital control of the lights as opposed to the manual replacement of gels over fluorescent tubes.

Nic Bailey, Steven Chilton, Malcolm Cook, Mark Sparrowhawk, and

the husband-and-wife team of Julia Barfield and David Marks.

Games, the London bid organizers announced the Olympic emblem

would be attached to the Eye for the duration of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

30 million people had ridden the London Eye since

its opening in March 2000.

Architecture Prize, wrote of the London Eye in a

book about the project,

The Eye has done for London what the Eiffel Tower did for Paris, which is to give it a symbol and to let people climb above the city and look back down on it. Not just specialists or rich people, but everybody. That's the beauty of it: it is public and accessible, and it is in a great position at the heart of London

own.... It essentially has to fulfil only one function,

and what a brilliantly inessential function it is: to lift people up from the ground, take them round a giant loop in the sky, then put them back down where they started. That is all it needs to do, and thankfully, that is all it does.

Writing for G2 in an article from August 2007, Steve Rose described the Eye as follows: