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The Milennium Dome
The Milennium Dome Richard Rogers London, UK 1999
The dome was built on the 300 acre site witith a diameter of 365 meters, purposely signifying the amount of days in a year.
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Comprised of a teflon-coated PTFE fabric that gives the dome a futuristic look. The panels, show- case the lattitude and longitude lines to signify the calendar events held in the space.
The dome features twelve of these steel masts at one hundred meters high which support a network of high tensible cables. These masts appear both in the interior and the exterior of the dome.
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