“Rarely has a building attracted quite so many similes. Some locals think it looks like a slug, or a bloated armadillo. Glimpsed from sea it seems very like a whale emerging from the deep… For some it is already a white elephant – the latest example of a witless public-sector mentality. The comparisons multiply because nobody knows what exactly Wales’s all too multi-purpose Millennium Centre really is. The latest, and the last, of the big millennial lottery-funded projects opens next week – the legatee of more than a decade of wrangling about what should be built in the middle of the reconstructed Cardiff Bay.”