Take that! Badger-culling scum!
Categories: uncategorized, circumnavigation
Tags: london, oddthings, urbanwalks
Date: 29 March 2006 20:06:30
When you look for one thing you find another. I went up to look at an ivy-clad house in a street just north-west of Sloane Square and found this:
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I was actually on a Quest For The Mysteriously Aligned Building. I'd been looking at the western part of central London on Google Earth and noticed an odd building inserted into a block at a strange angle to the rest near Victoria Station (51°29'31.03" N 0° 09'11.69" W). So I went to have a look.
It's almost exactly over the road from St Mary's Bourne Street, where the grid plans of Belgravia, Sloane Street, and Pimlico meet at funny angles. It turned out to be nothing very special - though exactly what it is I have no idea. All over London blocks of buildings are involuting, alleyways and mews are opening up into courtyards, blocks that once only had an outside now have an outside and an inside, increasing both the density of building plan and the surface area across which interior space can meet exterior space. Prokaryotic townscapes are vacuolating and becoming eukaryotic, solid blocks of cells are invaginating, gastrulating, diploblastic structures becoming triploblastic, interior space is breaking out to the exterior through pores and gateways.
But that doesn't make for good pictures.
Unlike Battersea Power Station
taken in darkness with a long exposure, resting the camera on a wall at the bottom of Chelsea Bridge.