London's ill-starred £789 million Millennium Dome, a celebration of technology and progress, was likewise meant to be iconic. Its failure was due in part to accompanying political scandals and in part to its lackluster contents, which failed to attract anything like the expected number of visitors. But the architects, the Richard Rogers Partnership, should not get off scot-free. Rogers, who is responsible for two architectural icons, the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Lloyd's Building in London, must have seemed the perfect choice. But while the structure is impressive as engineering, its iconic quality is minimal. It looks exactly like what it is: a tent. The real British millennial icon turned out to be the London Eye, a giant Ferris wheel beside the Thames.