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Selecte d
in February 1996 by the Millennium
Commission from 57 competing UK Locations, the
Millennium Experience site lies on the
northern tip of the 300-acre Greenwich Peninsula.
The peninsula, on the south bank of the River
Thames, had lain derelict for more than two
decades.
To design the site and structures for the Millennium
Experience and its internal and external
facilities including catering and welcoming
facilities, parks, river-walks, piers, linking
canopied walkways, and the principal structure,
the 100 000m2 Dome which will contain
the majority of Millennium Experience exhibits
and celebrations. The exhibition will open on
December 31, 1999 and run for at least one
year.
The Dome has a circumference of one kilometre,
measures 365m in diameter and 50m at its
highest point. It is suspended from a series
of twelve 100m steel masts, held in place by
more than 70 km of high strength coble. The building's
roof is mode of Teflon coated glass fiber (PTFE).
At the heart of the Dome. is a central arena
conceived as o n
open, flexible theatrical space.
Work on site began in June 1997 with the driving
of 8000 piles for the foundations followed by
the digging of services trenches, site drainage
and the construction of a concrete ring-beam
marking out the circumference of the Dome. 1
600 tons of steel sections arrived in August
1997 which were welded together on site to
form the masts, all twelve of which were
erected in October 1997. Construction of the
coble net and the attachment of the roof skin
were carried Out in the first half of 1998.
The Dome enclosure and service cores were
handed over to the client for exhibition in autumn
1998, with the facade erected by early 1999.
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