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Millennium and Bridge
These include Temple Footbridge, Bloomers Hole Footbridge, the Hungerford Footbridges and the Millennium Bridge, all of which have distinctive design characteristics.
The Millennium Bridge, officially known as the London Millennium Footbridge, is a steel suspension bridge for pedestrians crossing the River Thames in London, England, linking Bankside with the City.
The bridge was completed at a cost of £ 18. 2M (£ 2. 2M over budget ), primarily paid for by the Millennium Commission and the London Bridge Trust.
In the case of the Millennium Bridge, because the lateral motion caused the pedestrians loading the bridge to directly participate with the bridge, the vibrational modes had not been anticipated by the designers.
This used acoustic transducers placed at strategic locations on the cabling of the Millennium Bridge and the signals from those transducers were amplified and dynamically distributed throughout the Turbine Hall of the Tate by a programme which Fontana entered into the sound diffusion engine of the Richmond Sound Design AudioBox.
In the 2009 film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the Millennium Bridge is shown to be destroyed due to an attack by Death Eaters instead of the fictional Brockdale Bridge mentioned in the book.
Millennium and London
Boadicea by Thomas Thornycroft, standing near Westminster Millennium Pier | Westminster Pier, London
At the turn of the 21st century, London hosted the much derided Millennium Dome at Greenwich, to mark the new century.
One was the largest observation wheel in the world, the " Millennium Wheel ", or the London Eye, which was erected as a temporary structure, but soon became a fixture, and draws four million visitors a year.
Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, touring exhibition: Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin ( 2001 ), Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao ( 2002 ), Haunch of Venison, London ( 2003 ); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney ( 2003 ); City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand ; Millennium
** In London, a criminal gang raids the Millennium Dome to steal the Millennium Star diamond, but police surveillance catches them in the act.
However, before its opening, The Dome was excoriated in Iain Sinclair's diatribe, Sorry Meniscus-Excursions to the Millennium Dome ( Profile Books: London 1999, ISBN 1-86197-179-6 ), which accurately forecast the hype, the political posturing and the eventual disillusion.
* The Millennium Dome, London Paul's Panoramas-Panoramic view of the Dome interior during the 2000 exhibition
* Renfrew, A. C., 1972, The Emergence of Civilisation: The Cyclades and the Aegean in The Third Millennium BC, London.
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File: Teesquay Millennium Footbridge, Stockton on Tees. jpg | A rower passing the Teesquay Millennium Bridge
Statue of Boudica by Thomas Thornycroft near Westminster Millennium Pier | Westminster Pier, London, with her two daughters upon a chariot
Derby Moor Community Sports College Trust | Derby Moor Community Sports College and the The Millennium Centre | Millenium Centre
The Expo Line, one of three lines on the SkyTrain ( Vancouver ) | SkyTrain begins at Waterfront Station | Waterfront and runs with the Millennium Line to Columbia, then branching out to Surrey, terminating at King George Station | King George
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