The Falkirk Wheel and Visitor Centre, Scotland
The Falkirk Wheel is the world's first and only rotating boatlift and was created to link two canals between the east and west of Scotland. The wheel was designed to carry two boats up and two boats down the 35-metre drop in level between two canals in just 15 minutes. Completed ahead of schedule in 2002 and opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, RMJM's design for the wheel has become a Scottish icon, representing a functional sculpture which symbolises and celebrates the renaissance of the two canals. The Falkirk Wheel and adjacent RMJM-designed, timber-clad visitor centre attract on average half a million visitors every year and recently featured on the Scottish fifty pound note.
It has won a host of design awards including a Scottish Design Award, Civic Trust Award, Dynamic Place Award and a Structural Steel Award.
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