From time to time, and just for a split second, I saw huge halls open up…
Terunobu Fujimo's Beetle's House, V&A, Cromwell Road, Kensington & Chelsea, SW7
…with rows of pillars and collonades leading far into the distance…
Helen and Hard Architects' Ratatosk, V&A, Cromwell Road, Kensington & Chelsea, SW7
…with vaults and brickwork arches bearing on them many-storeyed structures, with flights of stone steps, wooden stairways and ladders, all leading the eye on and on.
Rural Studio's Woodshed, V&A, Cromwell Road, Kensington & Chelsea, SW7
I saw viaducts and footbridges crossing deep chasms thronged with tiny figures who looked to me, said Austerlitz…
Rintala Eggertsson Architects' Ark, V&A, Cromwell Road, Kensington & Chelsea, SW7
…like prisoners in search of some way of escapefrom their dungeon, and the longer I stared upwards with my headwrenched painfully back, the more I felt as if the room where I stood were expanding…
Studio Mumbai's In-between Architecture, V&A, Cromwell Road, Kensington & Chelsea, SW7
From WG Sebald’s Austerlitz (2001)
