A dark underground passage with horizontal ceiling lights and a stairway at the far end leading upwards.
Underground Passage Lights
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I'm a fan of 1960s Brutalist architecture. And even of Brutalism revamped through the sixty years of its life. I thought this was the oldest pedestrian tunnel in this city, St John's, Nfld., but a friend tells me there are some secret tunnels at the local Catholic basilica that predate it by many decades. It was built in 1963 or '64, cutting under six lanes of traffic that bisect the local university campus. I first walked through it delivering newspapers in 1965, give or take a year. I regularly used it in the late 1960s and early seventies. Last night was my first time there in about twenty years. It's been rejigged at least a few times -- it was closed for a year, I think, for resurfacing and water-proofing two or three decades ago; the 1980s and 90s saw all those wiring pipes added (telephone and computer lines mostly); and then the 2010s or perhaps the early 2020s saw the light boards put up to cover most of the pipes -- and to suggest the 1960s. I like it. I like anything made for pedestrians. ------------------------------- Receding perspective inside boxey concrete tunnel with multi-coloured light-boards on the left side and their reflection on the right. Six sensors, probably all security cameras or smoke detectors hang along the centre line of the ceiling.
Philip Hiscock @justfolk.bsky.social
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Pedestrian tunnel from sixty years ago, and still a good example. I like Brutalist architecture, even when it's been made over a few times.
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