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The World's Biggest Dome
Millennium Experience
The Millennium Experience will take place on a 181-acre site
on the North Greenwich peninsula bounded on three sides by the River
Thames. Part of a 300-acre former gasworks, it had been derelict for more
than two decades and was the largest undeveloped site on the River Thames.
The Prime
Meridian cuts across the north of the site which is about two and a half
kilometres from historic Greenwich.
Formerly owned by British Gas, in 1997 the site was sold to
English Partnerships (EP), a government regeneration agency. EP commissioned the
Richard Rogers Partnership to draw up a masterplan for the whole of
the 300-acre site. Current plans include 3,000 new homes, a business district
and industrial and retail areas.
EP are developing in time for 2000 a new 1,400-home
Millennium Village using building and design techniques to the highest
environmental standards for private housing, social housing, education and
community uses.
At the heart of the site is a new underground station on the
Jubilee Line and a transport interchange. The station, designed by Alsop &
Stormer, is the largest in Europe. The transport interchange has been designed
by Norman Foster Associates. The UK’s first major ecologically sensitive river
scheme is being developed on the Greenwich Peninsula to provide beaches, mud
flats and a terraced salt marsh.
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