Look Up: shoreditch

Do you begin and end your day with the world framed by a window or windscreen? Maybe it’s your own or perhaps it is the fingerprint smeared one of the bus or train. Do you run? Or cycle? Do you stare ahead, focussed on the point of horizon, enjoying the sensation of the landmarks flying past you? Or do you walk? Head dead ahead. Music sounding. Telephone chattering. Daydreaming.

Have you walked or driven the same route for as long as you can remember? Have you one day, for whatever reason, looked up and seen something that surprised you? A building above a shop perhaps? A blue plaque? A piece of graffiti impossibly high up? A flag. This blog is about what you can see when you tilt your chin and see a different view of your everyday world.

Look up.

Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Double domes

Back in Shoreditch I spied these two dome topped buildings. There seems to be a theme of these around London and walking around the capital is starting to turn into a 'dome spotting' version of eye-spy. I wonder how many more are scattered around the city and why they are there. I shall endeavour to find out.