BARBELITH underground
 

Subcultural engagement for the 21st Century...
Barbelith is a new kind of community (find out more)...
You can login or register.


Archon squatting in central London

 
 
bjacques
11:16 / 23.06.03
If you stand at the corner of Stoke Newington Church St. and the High Street (or anywhere on Dalston/Kingsland Rd.) and look due south, you can see a big egg and a couple of cranes looking like the King of Neo-Liberalism settling in. So what is it?
 
 
Hattie's Kitchen
11:33 / 23.06.03
It's a pod. For lizards.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
11:35 / 23.06.03
Is it that "erotic gherkin" thing? Or am I missing something equally tall?
 
 
Hattie's Kitchen
11:37 / 23.06.03
Yes, the sexy gherkin...kind of looks like a butt-plug in a certain light...I'm really not sure but is it some new insurance/bank HQ?
 
 
Quantum
11:38 / 23.06.03
It's the infamous gherkin, already present on the London logo skyline even though it's not built yet. It is an Archon, hiding in plain sight...
 
 
sleazenation
11:49 / 23.06.03
what, you've only just noticed the new swiss building (otherwise known as the erotic gerkin)?

Have you ever been outside of Stoke Newington?
 
 
Unencumbered
12:00 / 23.06.03
HK may be on to something here. It's clearly a butt-plug for a giant lizard.
 
 
unheimlich manoeuvre
12:37 / 23.06.03

that would be the new Swiss Reinsurance Company headquarters on the site of the Baltic Exchange which was blown up by the IRA in 1992.

fekking odd looking fing if you ask me.
 
 
Hattie's Kitchen
13:17 / 23.06.03
It also looks like one of those little plastic pods featured in Spinal Tap, in the scene where Derek the bass player was stuck in one and couldn't get out. Clearly architects with taste here...
 
 
Mourne Kransky
13:31 / 23.06.03
It is a fabulous piece of sentient architecture by a radical anti-capitalist.

It moves stealthily around the city by night, squeezing itself into vacant lots all over the East End. This explains why I can see it wherever I go around my southern stomping grounds and it's never quite where it was the last time.

Its internal thermal sensors monitor how high the occupancy is and, when it contains a critical mass of businesspeople armed with palmtops, it will blast off into orbit, controls set for the heart of the sun.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
14:30 / 23.06.03
Really?

Cool.
 
 
bjacques
14:34 / 23.06.03
Thanks!
 
 
Saveloy
14:54 / 23.06.03
Strange how the dullest industries have the most exciting buildings, eh? I suppose the dullest are also the wealthiest. I love this one, it's a proper sci-fi building of the sort we are meant to have in the 21st century. Let's face it, technology has been rubbish recently, all it's given us is computers and mobile phones when it should have been giving us space cruisers and hover-cars. F***ing yawn. Hi tech buildings in funny shapes go some way to making up for it.
 
  
Add Your Reply