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I know where this is and it is supporting a shed load more road / traffic on the junction above it, than it was ever meant to support - Hence the industrial-grade Meccano.
The junction above has been re-modelled in the last few years - it is questionable whether the re-modelling is for the better - for cycle traffic.
(I found it a bit claustrophobic, as a pedestrian in there)
I've just deleted the next bit about it being a stones-throw-away-from-a-suicide I was going to include, as that would give the game away to the google-sleuths.
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I have a couple of architectural booklets by Samantha Hardingham, called 'London'.
They deal with contemporary buildings in err..... London. The older of the two was published in '93 and contains these gems:
and
I had not long left Central St Martins. Cascades represented the future in, what was then, smash-n-grab Britain.
Compare it to that view today, when it has been dwarfed by all corporate else around it. It looks almost surreal.
Whether or not that particular style has dated gracefully isn't important (to me).
The importance of that building lay in how breathtaking and ground-breaking it was. Nothing like it had been previously seen, when it was built - certainly not in terms of private residential premises. I'll always have a soft spot for it for that reason -
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Spot on 7ven.
Dundee Wharf - in the unlikely event that anyone is struggling with the picture clues.