The Millennium Dome: The Official Book of the Dome

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Officially endorsed by the New Millennium Experience Company, The Millenniu m Dome is the flagship title about the creation of this latter-day Wonder o f the World The Millennium Dome is more than a building to mark the new millennium - it has become a national lightning conductor for premillennial tensions and a symbol of what it means to be British today. Everything about the Dome is huge: its budget of 758million, its size (thirteen Albert Halls); and, gr eatest of all, the weight of public expectation resting upon it. Written with access to all the key personalities, illustrated with exclusive photographs, architectural plans and drawings, and officially endorsed by the New Millennium Experience Company, The Millennium Dome will be the flagship publication about the project and the most comprehensive visual record available of this architectural monument to the millennium. It is an extraordinary achievement: with a translucent canopy made of 100,000 sq m of fabric, 1km in circumference, held up with 43 miles of high-strength cable suspended from twelve vast, 105-tonne yellow steel masts, the Dome will light up the Greenwich night sky and be visible for many miles around. Its architect, Richard Rogers, has described it as 'an odyssey into the future, a twenty-first century Stonehenge'; and although - who knows - the Dome's longevity may not quite match Stonehenge's, in the year 3000 it will perhaps be remembered as an almost mythical example of a building that showed truly mi.

Product Info

ISBN: 0002201704

ISBN-13: 9780002201704

Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS ILLUSTRATED

Year: 1999

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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Country: Japan