Proposed cable car attraction would take Chicago to new heights

Chicago-skyline-projectA Marks Barfield Architects representative told us that the project cost is estimated at US$250 million (Credit: F10 Studios) A Marks Barfield Architects representative told us that the project cost is estimated at US$250 million (Credit: F10 Studios)

Preliminary plans have been unveiled for a new aerial cable car tourist attraction for the Windy City. Should the Chicago Skyline proposal be realized, it would transport up to 3,000 people per hour and link Navy Pier, the Chicago Lakefront, the Chicago River Riverwalk, and downtown Chicago.

The Chicago Skyline project was launched by Lou Raizin and Laurence Geller, and is designed by Davis Brody Bond and Marks Barfield Architects, the latter firm behind the London Eye and Brighton i360.

Indeed, the success of the London Eye looms large on this proposal and it’s hoped that the Chicago Skyline would similarly boost tourism for Chicago. The same engineering team behind the London Eye (Jacobs) helped develop the concept, while the designer of the British attraction’s pods, ride, and drive systems, Leitner-Poma, is slated to build the Chicago project.

Chicago Skyline project

Chicago Skyline project

Great article by Adam Williams over at Gizmag

Chicago Skyline project would be at a height of 17 stories

Chicago Skyline project would be at a height of 17 stories

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The founder and director of several art and sculpture related marketing companies along with their companion websites. Bill West is all about Art, Sculpture. Music, Architecture, Technology and items that move like cars and all motion related cool - all things Spatial. Bill West first became involved in the visual communications industry in 1972. Starting with a Craft store, then moving into commercial and fine arts store and both wholesale and retail as well as publishing our own 300 page catalog. That morphed in as gallery and large custom picture frame operation. Soon after that we ventured into drafting and engineering supply company and large scale photo reprographics services operation with complete large format color lab! Next came a Computer graphics systems integration company. Selling both cad/cam systems and micro-computer design cad systems which integrated AutoCad and 3D visualization programs to the PC. Always a forward thinker, Bill can spot market changes in the making and is good at positioning companies to benefit from that eventuality. A good example of this seeming clairvoyance is the way he jumped on the internet in 1993. By 1995 he had created a respected internet marketing business catering to the visual arts community.

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