"mid-2005. Because of the six-year delay in opening and not having been ready for the Millennium as planned, the tower was renamed as Spinnaker Tower. The overall development project was over budget, with the tower costing £35.6 million alone. Taxpayers were never intended to fund the tower, but Portsmouth City Council eventually contributed £11.1 million towards construction. In March 2004, Portsmouth Council's former leader Cllr Leo Madden resigned as leader of the Labour Group on the council after a highly critical report of the council's handling of the project and its failure to exploit revenue opportunities, such as the Millennium."
"coaster. Some images and information were acquired from towerstimes.co.uk Boneshaker (Alton Towers) Boneshaker was a Mondial Supernova located at Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England. It was removed in 2003 because it was unreliable and the park needed space to build their new roller coaster for 2005, Rita: Queen of Speed. It first opened in the park as a thrilling ride but was tamed over the years. Energizer first opened in 1995 on the former 1001 Nights site in Festival Park area (known as UG Land from 1999-2009). The ride brought in many crowds of teenagers and thrill-seekers. At the time,"
"Boneshaker (Alton Towers) Boneshaker was a Mondial Supernova located at Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England. It was removed in 2003 because it was unreliable and the park needed space to build their new roller coaster for 2005, Rita: Queen of Speed. It first opened in the park as a thrilling ride but was tamed over the years. Energizer first opened in 1995 on the former 1001 Nights site in Festival Park area (known as UG Land from 1999-2009). The ride brought in many crowds of teenagers and thrill-seekers. At the time, this ride was extremely popular because of how it"
"of the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, and twelve senior members of the Royal Family. In 2001, redevelopment of the naval shore establishment HMS ""Vernon"" began as a complex of retail outlets, clubs, pubs, and a large shopping centre known as Gunwharf Quays. In 2003, construction of the tall Spinnaker Tower began at Gunwharf Quays with sponsorship from the National Lottery. In late 2004, the Tricorn Centre, dubbed ""the ugliest building in the UK"" by the BBC, was demolished after years of debate over the expense of demolition, and controversy as to whether it was worth preserving as an example"
"city to new developments such as Paulsgrove and Leigh Park. On 4 July 1968, an estimated 250,000 people witnessed the return of Alec Rose, a greengrocer in Osborne Road, after he completed his single-handed circumnavigation in ""Lively Lady""; he was immediately knighted and made a Freeman of the city. 400 motor-boats, yachts, catamarans and canoes welcomed him into harbour. The University of Portsmouth gained university status in 1992 In 2003 erection was started of a 552 feet high Spinnaker Tower sited at Portsmouth Harbour, and celebrating the city's maritime tradition. Completed in 2005, the tower has twin concrete legs meeting"
"Spinball Whizzer Spinball Whizzer is a spinning roller coaster located in the Adventure Land area of Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England. Built by Maurer Söhne, it was previously sponsored by Sega, the company that created the ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" video game franchise, and was known as Sonic Spinball from 2010 to 2015. Opening in 2004, ""Spinball Whizzer"" featured a loose pinball machine theme. The name was a pun on the song ""Pinball Wizard"" by The Who. In 2010, it was announced that Spinball Whizzer would be receiving a ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" re-brand as part of a partnership with Japanese video"
"of the ride's scenes along with associated sound effects and music. However, the ride was closed for refurbishment in June 2005 to make way for . Sega's sponsorship was set to end in 2013 as part of the three-year deal. At the end of 2013, the sponsorship was renewed, and continued until 2016. On 2 June 2015, the ride was temporarily closed after an accident on The Smiler at Alton Towers. Sonic Spinball reopened on 15 June 2015. The ride returned to the Spinball Whizzer theme for the 2016 season. Spinball Whizzer Spinball Whizzer is a spinning roller coaster located"
"Manchester. The Bank of New York Mellon opened its Manchester headquarters in 2005, and since then has expanded to over 1,100 employees and added a second office in Spinningfields. The bank describes Manchester as one of its ""three global growth centres"", with the office handling £15 billion worth of transactions across 80 global money markets everyday. Spinningfields is a large new business district west of Deansgate that will serve as home to several headquarters, squares, and cafes. The first building on the site was the Royal Bank of Scotland's new headquarters. Some have speculated that Spinningfields is fast becoming the"
"Emirates Air Line cable car over the River Thames in East London. Since 2015, Emirates has sponsored the England-based Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth, on the south coast . The airline did have £3.5m worth of plans to paint the landmark red, but after some discussion with the residents of Portsmouth and Southsea, Emirates agreed the tower was to be coloured blue and gold, with red lettering of the Emirates sponsor , for the pure reason that Portsmouth F.C. (the local football team) is coloured blue. It is now named ""Emirates Spinnaker Tower"". Emirates sponsors Cricket Australia, Lord's Taverners, and Pro"
"of the development. A proposal for a 175-metre (498 ft) tall observation tower named the """"Pinnacle Tower"""" were presented to the public in early 2006. This will be located on Curzon Road on what was part of the Ventureast site. The tower was redesigned with more detailed designs were presented to the public in September 2006, before being redesigned again and being relaunched as VTP200. Eastside Locks Eastside Locks (originally known as Ventureast) is a major mixed-use development in the Eastside area of Birmingham, England. It is located next to the City Park development and opposite Curzon Gate. It is"
"Spinningfields Spinningfields is an area of Manchester city centre, in North West England, developed in the 2000s between Deansgate and the River Irwell by Allied London Properties. The £1.5 billion project consists of twenty new buildings, totalling approximately 430,000 sq metres of commercial, residential and retail space. It takes its name from Spinningfield, a narrow street which ran westwards from Deansgate. In 1968, Spinningfield and the area to the south were turned into Spinningfield Square, an open paved area. The Manchester Civil Justice Centre is a landmark building of the scheme and construction commenced on 1 Spinningfields, a 90-metre office"
"the UK's surface fleet. The city is home to some famous ships, including HMS ""Warrior"", the Tudor carrack ""Mary Rose"" and Horatio Nelson's flagship, HMS ""Victory"" (the world's oldest naval ship still in commission). The former HMS ""Vernon"" naval shore establishment has been redeveloped as a retail park known as Gunwharf Quays. Portsmouth is among the few British cities with two cathedrals: the Anglican Cathedral of St Thomas and the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St John the Evangelist. The waterfront and Portsmouth Harbour are dominated by the Spinnaker Tower, one of the United Kingdom's tallest structures at . Nearby Southsea"
"of the United Kingdom was experiencing an economic boom and high rise towers were being built in many English cities. Ground and foundation works commenced at the beginning of 2004, and construction started in April 2004. By August 2004, work on its twin concrete cores had started and the structure was rising at a steady rate. One of the cores reached at the end of July 2005, at which point the building became the tallest skyscraper in the United Kingdom outside London. The tower was ""topped out"" on 26 April 2006. Local wind conditions dictated its height had to be"
"Landmark Pinnacle Landmark Pinnacle is a skyscraper under construction by developer Chalegrove Properties in Canary Wharf on the Isle of Dogs, London, United Kingdom. It is set to be the tallest residential building in Europe and will have more habitable floors than any other building in the UK. The development was formerly known as City Pride, the same name as the public house it replaces, before a name change in 2016. The ""City Pride"" public house was formerly the only building on the site and closed in 2012. Oracle Group purchased the freehold in 2007 for £6.75M and sold it"
"""Spinball Whizzer"" at the UK's Alton Towers and ""Dragon's Fury"" at the UK's Chessington World of Adventures. A similar ride debuted in 2004 when the first two Gerstlauer Spinning Coasters opened: ""Fairly Odd Coaster"" (formerly ""Timberland Twister"") at Nickelodeon Universe inside the Mall of America, and ""Spinning Dragons"" at Worlds of Fun. These coasters have twisted track layouts similar to Maurer Söhne's Xtended SC, but the seats on Gerstlauer Spinning Coasters face towards each other, as with the Virginia Reel. In 1995 Intamin debuted a spinning coaster with trains instead of individual cars: ""Comet Express"" at Lotte World in Seoul,"
"West Riding House Pinnacle (formerly West Riding House) is an and 20 storey tall office building in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which was completed in 1973. It was the tallest building in the city until 2005 with the topping out of Bridgewater Place. There are retail units on the ground floor of the building as it is located in the centre of the shopping district of the city. It was internally renovated in the early 2000s followed by a refurbishment of the lower floor retail space. Leeds City Council were originally the main tenants in the building but have since"
"their 2-0 loss to West Bromwich Albion as a victory, which had relegated Southampton to a division lower than that of Portsmouth. The last occasion this had happened was in the 1960-61 season, where Portsmouth had been in Division Two and Southampton were in Division Three. In 2015, 10,000 Portsmouth people signed a petition against Portsmouth City Council's decision allow airline Emirates to use its red and white livery (Southampton colours) for its sponsorship of the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth. The city council subsequently came to an agreement with sponsors Emirates to use blue and gold (Portsmouth colours) instead. Portsmouth"
"descending to at street level, close to Lewisham town centre, terminating in two platforms between and below the main-line platforms at Lewisham railway station, with buses stopping outside the station. The extension quickly proved profitable. The next developments were aided by a five-year programme of investment for public transport across London that was unveiled by Mayor of London Ken Livingstone on 12 October 2004. On 2 December 2005, an eastward branch along the approximate route of the former Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway on the southern side of the Royal Docks complex opened from Canning Town to via ."
"considered to be one of the most important Victorian buildings in England. Manchester also has a number of skyscrapers built during the 1960s and 1970s, the tallest of which was the CIS Tower located near Manchester Victoria station until the Beetham Tower was completed in 2006; it is an example of the new surge in high-rise building and includes a Hilton hotel, a restaurant, and apartments. It remains the tallest building outside London and has been described as the United Kingdom's only true skyscraper outside the capital. The Green Building, opposite Oxford Road station, is a pioneering eco-friendly housing project,"
"Nemesis: Sub-Terra Nemesis Sub-Terra is a drop tower dark ride located at Alton Towers theme park in Staffordshire, United Kingdom. The ride opened to the public on 24 March 2012 and ceased operation in August 2015, following an accident that occurred on The Smiler that injured several riders. The ride is listed on the park's website as unavailable, and its future is unknown. Its theme focuses on the discovery of a nest of eggs in a network of underground caves, which is loosely adapted from the concept of the park's 1994 inverted roller coaster, Nemesis. As the entrance is approached,"
"now appears to be at least partly vacant. City Tower, Manchester City Tower (formerly Sunley House) is a 30-storey skyscraper situated in the Piccadilly Gardens area of Manchester, England. It is one of the highest office spaces currently available in Manchester, standing 107 metres (351 ft) tall. City Tower was completed in 1965, one of three buildings forming the Piccadilly Plaza complex which was constructed by the developers Bernard Sunley & Sons and designed by Covell, Matthews & Partners, 1959-65. It is currently the fourth tallest building in Manchester. The Tower has retail and leisure units on the ground floor"
"on boxes of Krave cereal. The Smiler The Smiler is a steel roller coaster located at Alton Towers in Staffordshire, United Kingdom. Manufactured by Gerstlauer, it features 14 inversions and holds the world record for most inversions on a roller coaster. The Smiler has suffered a series of setbacks and ride incidents, including a malfunction at a press preview event which delayed the official opening date by two months, and in 2015, a major collision that left five riders seriously injured. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive was initiated, and the ride was closed for the remainder of"
"Pinnacle was to become the second-tallest building in both the United Kingdom and the European Union after The Shard, also in London. The Economic Development Corporation of Saudi Arabia and its development manager, Arab Investments, which largely funded the construction (investing £500 million in it) in return for a majority stake in the structure. However, the build was put on hold due to a lack of additional funding and letting commitments. In 2013 it was reported that a review of the design and construction process, undertaken by original architects Kohn Pedersen Fox, agents CBRE and the developers, had been completed,"
"second most visited theme park in the UK after Legoland Windsor. The park features a range of major attractions, such as Congo River Rapids, Runaway Mine Train, Nemesis, Oblivion, Galactica, The Smiler, and Wicker Man. It operates a total of ten roller coasters. The first hotel accommodation opened in 1996 as the Alton Towers Hotel. The Alton Towers Waterpark and a Caribbean-themed Splash Landings Hotel were added in 2003. The Enchanted Village opened in 2015, and a new hotel based on the CBeebies brand opened in July 2017. The complex also includes conference facilities, a crazy golf course, and a"
"and 1970s. However, in the 21st century, there has been a renewed interest in building skyscrapers in Manchester. Numerous residential and office blocks are being built or have recently been built in the city centre. The Beetham Tower was completed in the autumn of 2006 and houses a Hilton hotel along with a restaurant and residential properties. It is currently the tallest building in the UK outside London. However, this status may be short lived, as construction of an even taller building, the Piccadilly Tower began early in 2008 behind Manchester Piccadilly railway station. Museums in Manchester include: Manchester Museum"
"was open to relocate the Debenhams department store from its previous location on Broad Street into the centre. This in turn allowed for the redevelopment of the old Debenhams site as phase III of The Oracle, linked to phase I by a bridge over Minster Street. Phase III provided The Oracle with its all-important direct link to Broad Street, and was opened in May 2000 by The Princess Royal. The centre contains 90 shops, including department stores from the Debenhams (136,000 ft²) and House of Fraser (150,000 ft²) chains. A third and larger department store, John Lewis and Partners, is"
"Tower Hotel, London The Tower Hotel, is a large hotel situated on the north bank of the River Thames, on the east side of Tower Bridge, in London. The hotel was designed by the Renton Howard Wood Partnership, and constructed by Taylor Woodrow for owners J. Lyons & Co., and opened in September 1973. It was built in a modern style considered unattractive by many; indeed it was twice voted the second ugliest building in London, in a 2005 ""Time Out"" poll, and in a 2006 BBC poll. However, it is reputed to offer occupants excellent views from its rooms."
"(which have a double bed), and a small number of studio flats on the higher floors Opal Tower Opal Tower, officially known as Opal 3, Leeds is a 25 storey building in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It serves as student accommodation for 542 students and is close to the City campus of Leeds Beckett University and the University of Leeds. The initial planning application for this site (previously occupied by the Londoner pub) on Jacob St, Leeds city centre, was submitted in July 2005, for a 23 storey student apartment block. This design was later altered after initial approval and"
"despite only the internal lift working, with more than 600,000 people visiting it in the first year. It is one of a number of observation towers around the world that have become popular, including Vancouver's Harbour Centre, Toronto's CN Tower, Blackpool's Tower, New York City's One World Trade Center (as well as the original Twin Towers) and Shanghai's Oriental Pearl Tower. In June 2006, the local press raised a concern that the tower might be forced to close. All public buildings in the UK require disabled access under the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act. With the external lift inoperative and only"
"anglers and has been visited by urban explorers. In 2005 a private owner purchased it from the Crown Estate and put it up for sale again from 2010, with a guide price of £500,000. The owner, a south-east London builder named Simon Cowper, said that ""it just didn't work out well as a home – plus the cost of doing it [up]."" It was reportedly sold in 2014 for £400,000, though the new owner wished to remain ""under the radar"" until they had secured planning permission for renovations. Grain Tower Grain Tower is a mid-19th-century gun tower situated offshore just"
"The Smiler The Smiler is a steel roller coaster located at Alton Towers in Staffordshire, United Kingdom. Manufactured by Gerstlauer, it features 14 inversions and holds the world record for most inversions on a roller coaster. The Smiler has suffered a series of setbacks and ride incidents, including a malfunction at a press preview event which delayed the official opening date by two months, and in 2015, a major collision that left five riders seriously injured. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive was initiated, and the ride was closed for the remainder of that season. The ride eventually"
"The Shard The Shard, also infrequently referred to as the Shard of Glass, Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is a 95-story supertall skyscraper, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, in Southwark, London, that forms part of the Shard Quarter development. Standing high, the Shard is the tallest building in the United Kingdom, the tallest building in the European Union, the fifth-tallest building in Europe and the 96th-tallest building in the world. It is also the second-tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, after the concrete tower of the Emley Moor transmitting station. It replaced Southwark Towers,"
"1 Spinningfields No.1 Spinningfields (formerly 1 Hardman Square) is a 92-metre office tower in the Spinningfields district of Manchester city centre, Manchester in the United Kingdom. The development was previously known as 1 Hardman Square which was a 140-metre skyscraper but was cancelled in 2009. The development was revived in 2014 with a 92-metre office tower and the revised design gained planning approval in May 2014. Demolition of the former building on the site, Quay House, began in early 2015 and construction of its replacement began shortly afterwards. The skyscraper was first proposed in 2004, linking in with the new"