This sci-fi column rises above the Brighton surf at the point where the now-defunct West Pier used to make landfall. The world’s most slender tower is an uncompromising, 162m-tall column of reinforced steel and concrete, poking like a space-age cheese-stick from the seafront, with a huge, impaled, glass doughnut taking "passengers" 138m above the city for gobsmacking views of the Sussex coast.
The i360 is the world’s tallest moving observation tower and the vistas from it are truly spectacular – certainly much better than the views of it, especially as it rises incongruously near the architectural purity that is Regency Sq. A fancy restaurant and bars huddle at the base. The idea is that profits from the i360, a 21st-century "vertical pier," will one day be used to rebuild the West Pier.
