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[Millennium Zones, Greenwich]   + more ... The Millennium Dome

 

• content editors
  "Maybe the Press do it down ... but Joe Public seems to like it" (says Alex Mowatt, one of the designers of Skyscape, the auditorium in which the Blackadder film is shown, in Rowan Moore, les_00.10.11)
   
  
  • complicated idiot
    "... the assumption that every visitor is an idiot and can't understand complicated ideas. They should have been much more radical" (Zaha Hadid, in Rowan Moore, les_00.01.11)
     
    
  • talk apart
    "Jiricna says that, if only she had been allowed to talk to the clerics and theologians who objected to her ideas, she would have been able to respond creatively to their wishes, but the New Millennium Experience Company kept them apart." (Rowan Moore, les_00.01.11)

  • whingeing of luvvies
    ".... a typical comment is that the Dome's managers 'f***ed around so much, kept changing their minds and taking over things they had no idea about'. Another is that 'they never briefed us, they never got us together ...'

    The Dome's designers further object to ... the organisation's obsessive secrecy, as a result of which they were kept from talking to each other." (Rowan Moore, les_00.01.11)

  • bold uncle
    "Everyone and his uncle had their say, we had a different reaction every week ... I thought the idea was to be innovative and bold," (Derrick Tuke-Hastings, Rowan Moore, les_00.01.11)
     
    
  • curate's egg
    -- "you had to be as much a diplomat as a designer ..." (Lorenzo Apicella, in Rowan Moore, les_00.01.11)
    -- "The less talking, the more you can put in front of the customer ..." (Derrick Tuke-Hastings, Rowan Moore, les_00.01.11)
  
   
  
• grimy mall
  "a 70's mall in a grimy tent" (Jonathan Glancey, the Guardian's architecture critic, quoted by Fred Bernstein, nyt_00.01.06)
   
  
• Christmas cracker
  "Personally I liked the Dome's giant McDonald's: at least there was no pretension about the familiar package of dough, fat and sugar it offered." (Rowan Moore, les_00.01.05)   + more

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[Luton Airport, London]

• joke
  "For a while it was Luton International - oh, how we laughed at the hubris of it." (Peter Silverton, les_99.12.03)

• Estuary English
  "Then, in 1990, it became London Luton - oh, how we laughed even louder." (Peter Silverton, les_99.12.03)

• secret police
  "The new terminal ... is a low, metal structure with not a single word or sign on its exterior: secret- police architecture. ... It's a Norman Foster building, of course. Isn't everything these days? It's grey, of course. It's Foster, isn't it? There's red inside, though, a first for the architectural knight." (Peter Silverton, les_99.12.03)

• of course
  "There's a concept to the terminal's design, of course. Actually, there are two. In one, the information hall is 'the theatre' and the check-in desks are 'the stage'. In the other, the information hall is a 'street' and the check-in desks the 'commercial district'." (Peter Silverton, les_99.12.03)

• emblematic
  "Mine is the least signature of all signature buildings, and therefore, I expect it won't attract so much attention - although I believe it will wear very well." (Harry Cobb in Mary Ellyn Hutton, cp_99.12.01)

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