The Barbican
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https://dynamicstasisblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/rg_barbican_010.jpg One afternoon I alighted from the Tube at Barbican Station for the first time. I walked outside to the City of London; typically busy and hectic – a place of noise and chaos. Opposite, Beech Street was consumed by a long dark gloomy tunnel. I left the street and walked beneath an elegantly sculpted and heroic concrete tower. I climbed a stair and emerged on an expansive elevated platform – an aerial plaza with so much space (and trees!). I was suddenly removed from the noise and pollution of the streets below; within just a few seconds I had arrived in a different place altogether.
That day, simply by climbing one stair, I felt as if I had been evacuated (figuratively and literally) from a city I thought I understood.
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