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It was a nice crisp morning as I took the DLR in today, so rather than endure the central line crush I decided to walk to Holborn from Bank. On the way I passed a rather striking building site at Cheapside...


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New building work on Cheapside, near St Paul's. I liked the half-assembled look of the building, like a Chris Foss sf cover from the 1970s. The reddish stripes also caught my eye and I wondered what was causing them - there was nothing obviously red that was being reflected.
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It turned out to be the plastic safety net behind the newly-installed glass, illuminated from behind by the morning sun.
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Windows being lifted into place high above the City streets.





Pictures taken with my iPhone, uploaded to Dropbox, and then edited online via Picnik before posting to LiveJournal. Cloud computing for the win!

Date: 2009-12-04 07:28 pm (UTC)
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And I've been wondering whether there would be any interesting shops facing onto the street. (Ahem!)

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