Although at 32 stories not nearly as high, it was bigger and described at the time as a monument to greed.
Indeed, the tower seems to have won a new place in the national imagination, this time as a monument to a sepia-toned past.
Seagoers are great monument builders; converting a memory into something as concrete, and as resistant to time, as a monument is at least one way of compensating for their helplessness before nature.
This time a white monument pokes up in the middle distance amid the vines.
Then there will be time to erect a monument".
He foresees the day when you can take a walking or driving tour of London, and every time you pass a monument, such as Big Ben or the Tower of London, you get beeped by your mobile phone.
Jobbik, on the other hand, has welcomed the memorial plan, but insists that it does not go far enough and that it is now time to remove a monument to the 1945 Soviet liberation of Hungary from the square on which the new monument will be erected.
"Cuba is really a time machine and a monument," Ribisi said.
The London Eye began as a fanciful entry to a 1993 competition in the Sunday Times to design a monument for the new millennium.
