These are from a photowalk today. I am more interested in photographing people than architecture but it was a nice walk and it broadened my mind. The second photo is looking from inside a Richard Serra sculpture near Liverpool Street Station in London.
The sculpture is called The Fulcrum and it is 17 metres tall. The steel is (from memory) about five centimetres thick and when I tapped it, it made no sound because it is that solid. The sculpture is free-standing with the plates leaning against each other at the top, and it was erected in 1987.Manhattan or in London, the sculptures have a lot of competition on their hands from the buildings around them,
Finally, never believe that the UK is down in the dumps economically. I don’t know who is paying for all the buildings that are going up all the time, but it must run to many millions, probably many billions.
The red building reflected in the first photo (of which a snippet is seen from inside the Serra sculpture) is just one of many that are being built right now. And just a few hundred yards away are two buildings many hundreds of feet tall in the early stages of construction.
What is funding it all? Who knows?
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