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The Millennium Dome was the original name of the large dome-shaped building on the Greenwich Peninsula in South East London, England, ... Tensile architecture;
Perhaps the most famous of these, the Millennium Dome, was designed by the Rogers practice in conjunction with engineering firm Buro Happold and completed in 1999. It was the subject of fierce political and public debate over the cost and contents of the exhibition it contained; the building itself cost £43 million.
William Ian Liddell (born 1938 [2]) is a structural engineer and the designer of London's Millennium Dome. He was one of the founding partners of Buro Happold and is a Royal Academy Visiting Professor of Engineering Design at Cambridge University School of Engineering. He is now a consultant for Buro Happold.
The architect also designed the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Lloyd’s of London building and the Senedd in Cardiff.
The arena was built under the Millennium Dome (renamed The O2), a large dome-shaped building built to house an exhibition celebrating the turn of the third millennium; as the structure still stands over the arena, The Dome remains a name in common usage for the venue.
Mike Davies was born in Wales in 1942. [4] His father was a geographer, and he travelled extensively with him as a child. [4] He was educated at Highgate School, the Northern Polytechnic and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, before graduating with a master's degree in urban design from UCLA in 1970.
The year 1999 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events ... Millennium Dome in London, designed by Richard Rogers.
Adams joined Percy Thomas Architects and began work on the £106 million Wales Millennium Centre project in Cardiff Bay, which opened in November 2004 and for which he is best known. [8] Adams says the design was inspired by the architect of Cardiff Castle , William Burges [ 9 ] and the layered cliffs of the South Wales coast . [ 10 ]