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Article: Millennium dome-architectonic drama.
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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At first sight of the architects' drawings, the great Dome of Greenwich, Britain's main celebration of the Millennium, seems conventional. In fact, it is immense, and incorporates many new structural and environmental engineering ideas.
The unique qualities of the Millennium Dome, its size, its significance and the speed required to get it going, called in the combined expertise of a multidisciplinary Buro Happold team of structural engineering and building services, geotechnical, civil and facade engineering, environmental engineering, fire engineering and access consultants working with the New Millennium Experience Company (NMEC), Richard Rogers Partnership, ...