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by Richard Rogers

Dome is a photographic handbook of the design and construction of the Dome at Greenwich, London. Specially commissioned photographs show building details as well as panoramas of the spectacular site, telling the story of the architecture, engineering and landscape of this unique millennial project. An explanatory introduction and descriptive captions relay factual information about the Dome and its relationship to issues of shelter, climate, scale, landscape, materials, technology and time. The pages are circular in form and the book comes in its own futuristic packaging, designed to evoke the building itself. Designed by North. Paperback in plastic clamshell case. 55 full-color, and 8 page one color insert

Paperback

First published February 15, 2000

About the author

Sir Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, FRIBA FCSD is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs.

Rogers is perhaps best known for his work on the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Lloyd's building and Millennium Dome both in London, and the European Court of Human Rights building in Strasbourg. He is a winner of the RIBA Gold Medal, the Thomas Jefferson Medal, the RIBA Stirling Prize, the Minerva Medal and Pritzker Prize.