The taxi drivers stand around the doorway, the sudden zip into the darkness as the pizza delivery scooter chirrups off with its order. This view is a notorious metaphor for death around these parts. It’s metonymic, perhaps. And all around, these small significant signs of life, the hawaiian with extra cheese, the leisurely tab before that trip to the airport, while behind hundreds of anonymous blinds, who knows.
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love this view – the metonym burns
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It’s such an important place, there’s a feeling like being in a great cathedral or maybe a deep forest. And all the while, the wind is rushing around the ears.
I keep looking at flats in those buildings around Queen St, although I’m sure I couldn’t live there.
I agree about the sense of significance this place holds. It has an extraordinary feeling of theatre to me. I love the scale, angles, drops, slopes, ledges. And always faces watching, bodies passing. I would love here – but I would have to have a flat with a good view….
…should have read “I would love to LIVE here”…. sorry for (hopefully not Freudian) slip….
The big silvery tower block with the pale green panels seems the best bet to me, although it’s still all offices at the moment. The sandstone baroque stuff is plagued with noisy nesting kittywakes and their attendant caustic poo.
How odd – I’ve always thought that building would be a great place to live too. It’s mysterious and 60s kitsch. Once looked in the (very small) windows and could see people at computers. Wonder if it’s quite dark inside?
Cale Cross House, built on what was Cale Cross market. Its foundations go down to the Quayside, and there’s an interesting set of Luder-style steps down there. Great for photos, as is absolutely everything around there.
Never been in. Hmmm…
Isn’t it amazing how one picture can plant ideas into your head that aren’t even there? The quietness of this city picture makes me think of something dark and scary, I think it’s the fact that it looks so still. A picture can still look busy if it has a lot of people in it.