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Millennium Dome

October 2023

  • Illustration of millennium Dome for long read by Guardian Design

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Was the Millennium Dome really so bad? The inside story of a (not so) total disaster

    From 2020: Even before it opened, the Dome had become a byword for failure. But two decades on, it could be time for a reassessment. By Imogen West-Knights

March 2023

  • Brian Logan

    The venue’s no joke but Just for Laughs’ London festival delivered megastar standups

    Brian Logan
    A new sibling to Montreal’s big comedy shindig has launched in the UK and despite the corporate guff there was a lot to laugh about

December 2022

  • The former Millennium Dome in Greenwich, south London, with roof panels missing after they were blown off in Storm Eunice

    Newly released files reveal plan to move Millennium Dome to Swindon

    Labour government received bid to relocate controversial London building before it was rebranded as the O2

February 2022

  • Rowan Moore

    Notebook
    The wisdom of youth: twentysomething MP gives an object lesson in leadership

    Rowan Moore
    In a debate on transgender rights, Mhairi Black showed how to avoid Twitter storms and address the real issues

September 2021

  • Greenwich Design District buildings by 6a architects, Barozzi Veiga, SelgasCano, Mole Architects and HNNA.

    Greenwich Design District review – a lesson in how to make somewhere out of nowhere

    Eight architects, 16 buildings and one masterplan – to conjure an intimate, buzzing ‘piece of a city’ that feels like it’s been there for years

November 2020

  • Ross Kemp outside the Millennium Dome, now The O2 Arena.

    TV review
    The Millennium Dome Heist with Ross Kemp review – turgid true crime with TV's top hardman

    Following his well-worn formula, the ex-EastEnder somehow stretched the straightforward story of a plot to steal £350m of jewels into an hour-long programme

March 2020

  • millennium Dome illustration

    The Audio Long Read
    Was the Millennium Dome really so bad? The inside story of a (not so) total disaster – podcast

  • millennium Dome illustration

    The long read
    Was the Millennium Dome really so bad? The inside story of a (not so) total disaster

December 2019

  • Fireworks at midnight as the Millennium Dome is launched, London, 1 January 2000.

    The Millennium Dome 20 years on… revisiting a very British fiasco

    It was supposed to be the ultimate symbol of Cool Britannia. Instead it became a nightmare that exposed the spin and hubris of the New Labour project

February 2017

  • The 02 Arena, on the Greenwich peninsula in south-east London

    O2 in £125m deal to keep naming rights to former Millennium Dome

  • Blue Peter presenters Richard Bacon and Katy Hill with the Blue Peter time capsule in 1998.

    Blue Peter time capsule dug up by builders 33 years early

October 2015

  • The death mask of Daniel Good, a 19th-century murderer who was hunted for weeks by nine divisions of the Metropolitan police. It is one of the never-before-seen objects from the Black Museum at the Crime Museum Uncovered exhibition at the Museum of London.

    A doll’s house mystery and cruel binoculars: Scotland Yard's dark secrets revealed

    For the first time, the Met’s Black Museum’s grisly collection of evidence in the UK’s most notorious trials has gone on display at the Museum of London

March 2015

  • The Millennium Dome

    How we made
    How we made the Millennium Dome

    Richard Rogers:‘At the opening, we had furious VIPs saying: I’ll be writing about this catastrophe in the paper tomorrow!’

November 2014

  • eden project lottery fund

    The buildings that won the national lottery jackpot – the hits and misses

    It’s been 20 years since the national lottery first began providing funding for public building in the UK. Here, Rowan Moore reflects on the legacy of a venture responsible for the Eden Project, Tate Modern – and the Millennium Dome

June 2014

  • 02 Arena in London

    Gig venue guide
    The gig venue guide: O2 Arena, London

    Yes, it's a corporate enormodome, but there are good reasons why the O2 has become the world's busiest arena venue

September 2013

  • the Millennium Dome

    The Blunders of our Governments by Anthony King and Ivor Crewe – review

    An amusing and enraging compendium of ministerial error lays bare major flaws in the way the British run their politics. By Peter Wilby

July 2013

  • richard rogers architect

    Richard Rogers: the man who taught us to love colour

    As the architect turns 80, Rowan Moore revisits three of the highly original houses he built in the 1960s as his career was just beginning

September 2012

  • Dome roaming … Up at the O2 takes you on a walkway over the roof of the old Millennium Dome.

    Emma's eccentric Britain
    London: climbing the O2

    How will Emma Kennedy, a self-confessed vertigo-prone weakling, manage to climb a walkway over the top of the former Millennium Dome?

October 2011

  • Rihanna performs at the O2 Arena

    Rihanna at the O2 Arena – review

    Singer supplies plenty of big hits and spectacle, but the more relentless the raunch, the less interesting her music becomes

September 2011

  • Aerial view of The Shard under construction in the City of London.

    British architecture guides
    Towers of power: why Britain's cities reached for the sky

    Much architecture from the 1980s has been about power and ambition, says Jonathan Glancey

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