In Las Vegas it is planned to build a 152-foot Ferris wheel on the Las Vegas Strip.
According to preliminary data, the wheel will open in 2013 in the framework of a $100 million private project financing, including the shopping centre next to the Ferris wheel on 18580 square meters of retail, restaurant and entertainment space.
Look Ferris wheel will be quite unusual. Visitors will enter the gondola (which the wheel is 40).
Well the new flyer has all chances to become one of the most well-known, among which are:
The Ferris wheel in Vienna. Built by Ferris in 1897 and still exists. The wheel diameter is 61 meters.
The Paris Ferris wheel is one of the largest mobile Ferris wheels. A height of 60 meters. Does not require a permanent Foundation, as the stability provide ballast tanks with water of 40 000 litres. For the first time the wheel was mounted in Paris on the eve of the Millennium. In 2003, the wheel was moved to Birmingham, where he stayed until February of the following year, after which it was transferred to Manchester. After that, the wheel is back on the European continent. In the summer of 2005 it was mounted in Amsterdam.
The London eye is 135 meters - was the world's largest Ferris wheel in the period 2000-2006, before the opening of China's 160 meter Star of Nanchang. At the present time remains the third largest Ferris wheel after the Star of Nanchang and Singapore Flyer 160 and 165-metre respectively.
The Ferris wheel, the Singapore Flyer Singapore) is the largest Ferris wheel in the world - 165 meters, opened in April 2007,
Ferris wheel Star of Nanchang only five feet less than the Singapore flyer. For the construction of the wheels cost $7300000.
Interestingly, in the near future the largest Ferris wheel will be Moscow. In the capital of Russia in 2014 will be built giant with a diameter of 220 meters.
Source:
Women's Magazine
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