MILLENNIUM MASTERPIECE

摘要

The Millennium Dome Project was sponsored by two governments, but paid for by proceeds from the National Lottery (a sort of voluntary tax). It was a massive 'expo' erected in the East of London on a derelict gas works, and it was intended to represent the expression of British Life at the end of the 20th Century. It was all to be housed in the world's largest single span tensile structure designed by Richard Roger Partnership and the engineers Buro Happold. The first image produced for the Millennium Dome project in September 1997 was a drawing looking across the River Thames towards the site. The colored, pencil and ink rendering showed the fabric of this enormous structure glowing with pastel purple-blue light set against the Greenwich skyline. Punctuating the image were the strongly uplighted yellow masts and the huge 'plant cylinders' lighted in fiery red. The whole scene was softly reflected in the darkness of the river Thames.