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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.
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.
The Millennium Dome raid was an attempted robbery of the Millennium Dome's diamond exhibition in Greenwich, South East London occurring on 7 November 2000. A local gang planned to ram-raid the De Beers diamond exhibition, which was held in the riverside Dome. The gang had then planned to escape via the Thames in a speedboat.
In 2004 outline planning permission was granted for further large-scale redevelopment of the site, including over 10,000 further homes, some facing the river or overlooking the park, 3,500,000 square feet (330,000 m 2) of office space and the conversion of the Millennium Dome into an indoor arena, renamed The O 2, which was used as a London ...
The Millennium Dome Show, mid-performance in October 2000 Main article: Millennium Dome Show Gabriel was already working on the songs for his 2002 album Up , which was slated for release in 2001 at the time, when he started work on OVO : "'Ovo' was going to be a six-month diversion.
The Millennium Commission is singularly fortunate in obtaining Jennie's extraordinary combination of knowledge and management skills." Before the appointments at English Heritage and the Dome project she was a civil servant [ 2 ] [ 4 ] in the Departments of the Environment and Transport, Britoil (formerly BNOC) , London Docklands Development ...
Amidst this extra-curricular activity, Rogers continued to create controversial and iconic works. 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 ...