By Jessie Scanlon
In East London, on the Greenwich prime meridian, 12 yellow steel masts soar 328 feet above the horizon, the first signs of the Millennium Dome. Designed by Pompidou Centre architect Richard Rogers, the £40 million (US$65 million) dome will be the centerpiece of the Millennium Experience, Britain's fin-de-siécle celebration.
It will also be the only lasting element: long after the futuristic exhibits close December 31, 2000, the structure will dominate this wasteland-by-the-Thames. Measuring 164 feet in height, 350 yards in diameter, and covering the 20 acres now cluttered with diggers and cranes, the dome will be the largest in the world when it is completed in late 1998.
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