The bar is on the sea side, so I presume the designers imagined it would balance out. Sadly it seems they underestimated the desire for alcohol of the average inhabitant of Sussex.
Maybe so. Not that there is a regular stream of other people coming forward with viable ideas for saving/preserving/rebuilding the West Pier. And paying for it.
I must have missed all the people with great ideas for protecting the remains of the pier from the storms. And it's my understanding that all the cast iron was unusable even for rebuilding the land-based kiosks, which had to be 're-created' by the i360 from moulds taken from the originals...
Nobody Knows Anything, you say. Perhaps you don't know that the West Pier Trust was being charged for storage of the remaining ironwork, or you could have offered to store it yourself. Selling it off rather than taking it to the tip seems quite a good idea. And how exactly are the West Pier...
Whether people like the i360 or not, it's in the interests of the city that it should be a success. The Council will make money, increased footfall will make the rather run-down Preston Street area more prosperous, and if there is ever to be new West Pier, the i360 will almost certainly have a...