The Falkirk Wheel & Visitor Centre | RMJM
Falkirk / United Kingdom / 2002
The Falkirk Wheel is the world’s fi rst rotating boat lift designed to connect the Union Canal with the Forth and Clyde Canal 25 metres below and forms part of the Millennium Link Project - a £74 million investment to link the west and east coasts of Scotland with an inland waterway.
Completed ahead of schedule in April 2002 and opened in May 2002 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the Falkirk Wheel honours the bold vision and imagination behind the Millennium Link itself. It is a functional sculpture which both symbolises and celebrates the renaissance of the two canals - and what yet may follow.
RMJM was also responsible for the design of the innovative visitor centre. Provision is made within for display areas, cafe and offi ce spaces, all gathered together under a timber clad building form allowing uninterrupted views of the Wheel through a 45 degree glass wall.
The Falkirk Wheel is the world’s fi rst rotating boat lift designed to connect the Union Canal with the Forth and Clyde Canal 25 metres below and forms part of the Millennium Link Project - a £74 million investment to link the west and east coasts of Scotland with an inland waterway. Completed ahead of schedule in April 2002 and opened in May 2002 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the Falkirk Wheel honours the bold vision and imagination behind the Millennium Link itself. It is a...
- Year 2002
- Work started in 1999
- Work finished in 2002
- Status Completed works
- Type Waterworks/Water Systems
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