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Urbis museum
The creative director behind the exhibition inside Urbis, Manchester's long-awaited lottery-backed museum of city life, has turned on the project, comparing its shortcomings to the Millennium Dome and sparking a furious row with its architect and client.
Peter Higgins, creative director at Land Design and veteran of the Dome's Play Zone, said the pounds 30 million Urbis "could never be expected to work well, as the exhibition designers were appointed two or three years down the line,...