Matt Blaze5 Thurloe Square ("The Thin House"), London, UK, 2024.
All the pixels, each usable as a time travel machine in vintage British TV, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54192985864
Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50), Cambo 1200 camera (shifted vertically -10mm).
London's "Thin House" looks as if it belongs in a Potemkin village or as a background facade on a Hollywood studio lot, but it's something of a Tardis, larger on the inside than it appears on the outside. Created to make way for the tracks of the Metropolitan Railway (now the District and Circle lines) behind it, its triangular footprint gives it the illusion of being little more than a shallow rectangle when viewed from the street.
Hoarse e-Books@mattblaze A cursory glance at the satellite view suggests that this is one of a handful of places where the line isn’t fully underground, at least in this stretch. This looks like a rather posh part of town — (in)famous Sloane Square is just up the road — so you’d think land values would make it economically worthwhile to create more buildable land by covering the tracks. Any idea what’s going on here?
Christo. London, England@mattblaze
There's one of those in Cathusian Street opposite the gardens, City of London
There's one of those in Cathusian Street opposite the gardens, City of London
anyMouse@mattblaze This reminds me of the 2D architecture I encountered in Ibiza. (Sorry about the distortion, the phone I took the picture with at the time couldn't do view movements)
Scott P ✅Wow. Do you have the name of that hotel?
@saprentice @mattblaze I was actually wrong, It's on the Palmira Beach on Mallorca. I guess it's not actually a hotel since I wasn't able to find a name for this particular building.
That’s crazy. It’s one thing to be thin, but something else completely to cantilever off of it. Im assuming that pic is right on the edge of a wedge behind that building.
@saprentice @mattblaze Yes, it's a wedge-shaped building, actually not even at an extremely sharp angle, but ending in a single-wall-wide edge makes it look really bizarre from the right angle. Here's a screenshot of the aerial view of the building from Google Maps.
Lot⁴⁹@mattblaze Alistair Cooke never told us about this!
Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷