i360 tower

On the i360 tower, visitors will be able to glide up to 140m in a fully enclosed futuristic glass viewing pod to admire the unfolding views across Brighton and the south coast.

Marks Barfield Architects, i360, Brighton, 2016

British Airways i360, the world’s tallest moving observation tower, will open on Thursday 4th August, visitors will be able to glide up to 140m in a fully enclosed futuristic glass viewing pod to admire the unfolding views across Brighton and the south coast.

Conceived and designed by Marks Barfield Architects, creators of the London Eye, the record-breaking attraction opens almost exactly two years to the day when the project team put the first spade in the ground to begin construction.

David Marks and Julia Barfield said, “Built at the landward end of Brighton’s historic West Pier, i360 is a modern day vertical pier which invites visitors to ‘walk on air’ and gain a new perspective on the city, just as the West Pier invited Victorian society to ‘walk on water’.”

The glass viewing pod, ten times the size of a London Eye capsule and capable of carrying up to 200 passengers, will slowly rise up a slender steel tower to a height of 450 feet to provide passengers with stunning views of Brighton and Hove and a beautiful panorama of the south coast and English Channel.

British Airways i360, Brighton
Program: observation tower
Architects: Marks Barfield Architects
Completion: 2016

i360 tower

On the i360 tower, visitors will be able to glide up to 140m in a fully enclosed futuristic glass viewing pod to admire the unfolding views across Brighton and the south coast.

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