The 550-ft-tall High Roller observation wheel—the largest in the world—anchors The LINQ retail area located on the Las Vegas Strip, serving as the development's main focal point.
The apparatus is very much like a bicycle wheel, according to Arup. It consists of a single 6.6-ft-wide tube-steel rim, hung from 128 locked coil cables. The 28 cabins each weigh 44,000 lb and sit around the outside of the rim, each held by a single slewing bearing. Grand Junction, Colo.-based Leitner-Poma of America Inc. was the design-build cabin contractor.