We, in the US, have such "civic monstrosities" too, even here in PDX.
Sometimes it's an architect's eqo, sometimes it just pure $.
So, I'm sorry to offend the Brit Dwellars about this one,
but London fell short twice with this huge tourist trap.
First in allowing the thing to be built in a post-card location,
and second in naming it.
It should be called the "The London Eye Soar"
... or better yet, a homonym thereof.
