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The Millennium Dome Show, October 2000 The Millennium Dome at night, September 2000 After a private opening on the evening of 31 December 1999, including a New Year's Eve celebration attended by Queen Elizabeth II , the Millennium Experience at the Dome was open to the public for the whole of 2000, and contained a large number of attractions ...
The O2 (formerly known as the Millennium Dome) is a large entertainment district on the Greenwich peninsula in South East London, England, including an indoor arena, a music club, a Cineworld cinema, an exhibition space, piazzas, bars, restaurants, and a guided tour to the top of the O2.
It has the third-highest seating capacity of any indoor venue in the United Kingdom, behind Co-op Live and Manchester Arena, and in 2008 was the world's busiest music arena. [1] As of 2022, it is the ninth-largest building in the world by volume with a diameter of 365 metres (399 yards) and a height of 52 metres (57 yards).
The O 2 (formerly the Millennium Dome) was built on part of the site of East Greenwich Gas Works, a disused British Gas site on the Greenwich Peninsula. [39] It is next to North Greenwich Underground station, about 3 miles (4.8 km) north east from the Greenwich town centre, north west of Charlton.
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.
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The arena is the only indoor venue in the UK to be built following a layout of 360-degree seating. (London's The O2, formerly the Millennium Dome, also has 360-degree seating, but only on its lower tier, whereas Manchester's arena features
The Dome and the Canary Wharf complex ...that the Millennium Dome , the focus of the London 's millennium celebrations, is the largest single roofed structure in the world?