It opened in 2000 as the centrepiece of the uk s millennium celebrations which ran from 31 december 1999 to 31 december 2000.
Millennium dome roof construction.
Commissioned to mark the beginning of the twenty first century the millennium dome was intended as a celebratory emblematic and non hierarchical structure that offered a vast flexible space.
It was initiated to house an exhibition for the approach of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium ce the official start of which was january 1 2001.
Sunday 20 july 1997 00 02 enviromental campaigners are threatening to disrupt construction of the millennium dome plunging the controversial scheme into a fresh crisis.
The press were violently against it mainly because of the cost.
The total was 789m.
The millennium dome features twelve 100m high steel masts that support a tensioned net of seventy kilometres worth of steel cables arranged radially on the surface of the roof and held in place by hanger and tie down cables.
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It is the ninth largest building in the world by usable volume.
Millennium dome official name the o2 massive construction project and tourist attraction in greenwich london england.
The millennium dome couldn t have had a worse reception if you d worked hard to deliberately upset everybody.
Eventually page and her team came up with something they called the litmus group to oversee the content of the dome composed of cultural luminaries such.
The millennium dome also referred to simply as the dome is the original name of a large dome shaped building originally used to house the millennium experience a major exhibition celebrating the beginning of the third millennium.
Location millennium dome is a large building with a single roof located on the banks of the river thames on a former industrial land on the greenwich peninsula southeast of london england.