27th September 2011: out of time

A stream runs through a narrow culvert between modern brick walls, with shiny metal rails, but flows beneath an ancient archway.  Behind the archway large, modern buildings close in.

This archway has lost itself a bit in time.  It is surrounded by modern high rise office buildings, and you can only get to it by going down fairly well hidden side paths.  Someone has put in all sorts of silvery swish modern furnishings around – but added flowerbeds full of lavender just out of shot.  It’s an odd mixture of old and new.

I wonder what the architect of the old building would think of the modern ones?

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