Alien megastructures

Categories: buildings-and-cities

Date: 05 September 2011 20:01:13

London almost always looks best in the rain. And there is something about huge buildings that appeals to the inner 9-year-old. Especially when they look like a vast alien spaceship being built in the London rain. Its like something out of a Mark S Geston novel.

Rainy train in London

(As usual select the picture for a link to Flickr and other versions)

There are paralel worlds in that photo - the inside of the train (which you can see if you look hard enough), the men working on the new railway, the old warehouse and commercial buildings, the piled-up houses and shops towards Borough High Street and the megastructures behind them. They don't so much loom over the scene as stand behiund it as a kind of backdrop, a metal and concrete sky. They are in a different frame of reference.

This one I posted before - its almost dangerously

Shard from 21 bus

Shiny!

Sunny on the same day:

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And again:

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View from a distance when it was very small:

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How it started:

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Dozens more tagged here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nephrops/tags/shard/