AV Magazine, applications – A new life for the Dome

The white elephant has been revived. The a-v content, rather than the technology, in the original Millennium Dome let it down, but now the structure has a new lease of life, reports Geny Calois.

The beginning of the new millennium left Londoners with a huge dormant white elephant in north Greenwich. The Dome angered many people because of the ludicrous amount of taxpayers’ money – £750m – spent on something that only lasted a year and was closed for five.

But the days of the Dome’s useless existence are over. Now it has become a vibrant gathering space with plenty of things going on at any one time. This is the birth of ‘The O2.’

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