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"World's first vertical cable car" to open on Brighton beach this summer
London Eye designer Marks Barfield Architects has reached the final stage in its construction of the UK's highest observation tower outside the capital (+ slideshow). Billed as the world's first...
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Aerial cable car proposed for Chicago by Marks Barfield and Davis Brody Bond
Marks Barfield Architects and Davis Brody Bond have teamed up to design an aerial "gondola" that would stretch over the city of Chicago and serve as a major tourist attraction. Dubbed the Chicago...
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"World's tallest moving observation tower" prepares to welcome first passengers
A giant glass-and-steel doughnut that will transport passengers up and down a 162-metre-high pole is undergoing final tests ahead of its opening according to Marks Barfield Architects, who designed the...
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"World's tallest moving observation tower" filmed by drones ahead of opening...
With the Marks Barfield-designed i360 in Brighton set to open to the public this week, drones have shot new footage of the structure billed the "world's tallest moving observation tower" (+ movie). The...
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"Slight technical hitch" traps 180 passengers inside world's tallest moving...
A technical fault trapped 180 passengers inside the doughnut-shaped viewing pod of the i360 observation tower last night, leaving them suspended above Brighton's seafront for two hours. The viewing pod...
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Kew Tree Top Walkway by Marks Barfield Architects
An elevated walkway through the trees by Marks Barfield Architects has opened at Kew Gardens in London. The Kew Tree Top Walkway is 18m high and 200m long. Photographs by James Morley. Here's the full...
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Villa Hush Hush by Marks Barfield Architects
Marks Barfield Architects of London have designed a house where sections could be elevated on towers at the touch of a button. Called Villa Hush Hush, the building would be divided into four...
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Factory by Marks Barfield Architects
Steven Chilton of London office Marks Barfield Architects has designed a factory-shaped youth centre for the site of the what was once the world's largest car plant at Longbridge in Birmingham, UK....
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Competition: five copies of Gentle Landmarks to be won
Dezeen and London architects Marks Barfield have teamed up to give away five copies of Gentle Landmarks, a monograph of their recent projects. The book surveys the last ten years of projects realised...
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Amazon Science Centre by Marks Barfield Architects
British architects Marks Barfield have designed a research centre for the Amazon Jungle with a bulging bamboo observation tower and over six miles of treetop bridges. The centre would allow both...
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London Eye-designer Marks Barfield Architects plans elevated glass pavilion...
London-based Marks Barfield Architects has designed a temporary glazed pavilion raised up on criss-crossing steel columns that looks set be built near the firm's London Eye observation wheel on the...
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Competition: win a pair of tickets to visit Brighton's i360 observation tower
Dezeen is giving five readers the chance to win a pair of tickets to visit the Marks Barfield-designed i360 in Brighton, billed as the world's tallest moving observation tower. Congratulations to the...
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Architect and London Eye entrepreneur David Marks dies
Marks Barfield Architects co-founder David Marks has died aged 64, following a long illness. Marks, who alongside wife and partner Julia Barfield was the developer and architect of the London Eye,...
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Marks Barfield Architects designs Cambridge Central Mosque to be "place of...
Marks Barfield Architects has designed a sustainable mosque in Cambridge that draws on local architecture while incorporating traditional Islamic design aspects, including geometric patterns that...
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