The Beijing Wheel in Beijing, China

February 21, 2011 Category: Parks, Urban Design

Designed by Editorial is located in Beijing, China. The Beijing Great Wheel will stand an extra 73 metres taller at 208 metres (680ft). This height was chosen to celebrate the 2008 Olympics, which opens next August. China is already holder of the “highest wheel” with an earlier effort in the southern city of Nanchang. The Beijing Wheel, which is due to be completed by 2009, will carry 1920 passengers at t time, 40 to each of its 48 compartments, compared with the Eye, which can carry 25 in each pod. The circuit time will be 30 minutes, which is the same as the Eye, but given the visibility in Beijing from the effects of smog, which was reduced to 46 metres at one point last month.

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