"The Millennium Centre, locally nicknamed "the Armadillo", is an arts centre in the Bay area. Designer Jonathan Adams wanted a building that expressed "Welshness", and it was built with local materials that reflect the different parts of Wales. The centre's main feature, the bronze-coloured dome, inscribed with verses in Welsh and English, is clad in riveted steel treated with copper oxide. It reflects South Wales's industrial past and was designed to look better with age. The multi-coloured layers of slate represent the stone layers in sea cliffs and reflect the slate quarries of the north."http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/jun/09/walk-guides-cardiff-wales-architecture
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