Großbritannien-Exkursion - oppelshausen

London to house the King's Library and to
provide a proper home for the museum's
collections. It took some 24 years to build.
"The original museum had four principal
wings arranged around an open, two-acre
(0.8-hectare), quadrangle-shaped courtyard.
No sooner had the British Museum been
completed in 1857 than a growing demand
for storage space dictated that a new copper-
London Eye
But the British Airways sponsored London
Eye, billed as the world's highest
observational wheel, has changed all that.
The Eye stands a whopping 135 metres high
on the South Bank between Waterloo and
Westminster Bridges, right opposite Big Ben
and the Houses of Parliament and provides
stunning views over central London and
beyond.
Visitors are treated to a gently paced halfhour
ride in space age capsules holding 25
people each, hopping on and off as the
wheel moves. An increasingly popular idea
is to visit the Eye at night time when the
view is perhaps at its most magical.
Canary Wharf Tower
Year: 1991
Height: 243,2m / 800.0ft
(Highest building in
the UK)
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domed reading room be built in the middle
of the courtyard.
"The great Round Reading Room became a
popular haven, used by such luminaries as
Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Oscar Wilde,
Leon Trotsky, Rudyard Kipling, George
Bernard Shaw, and Virginia Woolf."
— Don Barker, "Foster and Partners Roof
the Great Court", in ArchitectureWeek No.
38, 2001.0214, pD1.1.
Weight: 1,000,016 kg
Floors: 50
Surface: 400.000 m²