London Eye, ...or London Eyesore?

This monstrous beast is the London Eye, which slowly creaks around at a clip of 30 minutes per rotation. It looks like a giant bicycle wheel. There are 32 glass enclosed capsules that hold 10-20 people each. While it is pretty cool, it doesn't look quite right to be standing in front of Westminster Abbey, where they have been crowning kings and queens since 1066, and see this lurking behind Big Ben. It clashes a bit.

The building on the left is London County Hall, it used to be the seat of London's government, now it's a hotel. We stayed here, really odd to be sleeping in some former bureaucrat's office.