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Karlis Rutkovskis

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Historyy 1994 : Millennium Commission established by prime Minister John

Major and handed over to Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine.

y The Millennium Dome closed to visitors on 31st December 2000 a few

hours before the new millennium officially begun! And officially re-opened as the O2 on 24 June 2007 on the day that Tony Blair resignedas Labour Party leader and John (2 Jags) Prescott resigned as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

y The architect was

Richard Rogers.

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Fascinating f aktsy In 2009 was explosion at millennium dome.

It was lorgh losst

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sizey The dome is the largest of its type in the world.

Externally, it appears as a large white marquee withtwelve 100 m-high yellow support towers, one for eachmonth of the year, or each hour of the clock face,representing the role played by Greenwich Mean Time.In plan view it is circular, 365 m in diameter onemetre for each day of the year with scalloped edges.I

t has become one of the United Kingdom's mostrecognisable landmarks. It can easily be seen on aerialphotographs of London. Its exterior is reminiscent of the Dome of Discovery built for the Festival of Britain in 1951.

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y He and the contractor was a joint venture company,McAlpine/Laing Joint Venture (MLJV) formed

between Sir Robert McAlpine and LaingManagement.[1] The building structure was engineeredby Buro Happold, and the entire roof structure weighsless than the air contained within the building.Although referred to as a dome it is not strictly one asit is not self-supporting, but is a mast-supported,dome-shaped cable network.[2] For this reason, it hasbeen disparagingly referred to as the Millennium Tent.

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Map of Millennium dome

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