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# Yeah
It's an image challenge about what they should do with the dome. This is what they are doing.
(kiss_my_swingers, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:26, archived)
# It's an image challenge about "alternative" uses for the dome
not actual ones

/pointless pointing out blog
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:30, archived)
# I
don't even really care anymore.
(kiss_my_swingers, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:31, archived)
# the title does saying 'revive' the dome....
which implies that turning it into a concert area would be an 'alternative' from its current use...

/pointless pedantry on pointless pointing out blog ;)

It'll never happen anyway as the steel structure around which the 'dome' is built only has a designed workable lifespan of 25 years,
but this fact kindly got overlooked once everyone got concerned about the £789million price tag
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:35, archived)
# Meh!
/pointless apathy on pointless pedantry on pointless pointing out blog ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Cheeky Boy! loves horses..., Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:38, archived)
# hahahaha, evening Squire!
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:38, archived)
# 'ning Doctor!
(I helped save b3ta! Cheeky Boy! loves horses..., Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:41, archived)
# morning!
(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:38, archived)
# Morning My Lover!
(I helped save b3ta! Cheeky Boy! loves horses..., Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:41, archived)
# indeed
but surely this concept is already in existance and therefore isn't an alternative? ;)


Hark at you and your structural knowledge. You'll be telling me the wind loading on the upper armature hasn't been correctly calculated next.
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:40, archived)
# it's still an 'alternative' from it's current use, lots of 'alternatives' or concepts could be rattled off as being 'previosuly presented'...
gah! Evening Squire!

hahaha, structural knowledge to a point, but it was a small fact presented in the initial package which quickly got covered up when there was the slightest hint that the public money that was being spent on it was wholly outrageous and would go higher than the initial budget..

As an example, to build a typical, traditional 3 bed house, you can do that (once land has been acquired) for well under £90k This house can be designed to have a lifespan approaching 75-80 years minimum...

1 Millennium Dome, stuctural steelwork designed for a 25 year lifespan, £789million...

That's 8767 houses that could have been built for families, or indeed, a good few hospitals/schools etc which would have been designed for longer term use...

*gets my goat blog*

roll on the 2012 olympics!
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:45, archived)
#
Primary School c.£4m
Secondary School c.£25m
Hospital - £sky's the limit

/QS (working on schools projects)
(I helped save b3ta! Cheeky Boy! loves horses..., Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:50, archived)
# scandalous really
*shrugs*
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:57, archived)
# I heard
that the wind loading on the upper armature hasn't been correctly calculated.
(I helped save b3ta! kinks rock over London, rock on Chicago, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:46, archived)
# I heard that one of the cross beams has gone out askew on the treddle
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:47, archived)
# i think it's got beautiful legs.
(I helped save b3ta! god save the queen making another unremarkable comeback, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:59, archived)