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Going Underground
50… depth in feet of the Greenwich Foot Tunnel (southern stairwell, looking like something by M.C Escher, above) 200,000… the approximate number of tiles in the Greenwich Foot Tunnel. 0… the number of cyclists who actually dismount and push their bikes through the pedestrian tunnel
Domed. We're all Domed.
The Dome (the largest single-roofed structure in the world) basks in a shard of celestial light as the wicked Brigadoon of “Canary Wharf” emerges from the mist behind. (The Dome – under the name The North Greenwich Arena 1, thanks to IOC regulations forbidding the mobile phone company that currently sponsors the structure from peddling their wares at the Olympics – will play home to the basketball finals at the 2012 Olympic Games. In 1948, the make-do-and-mend Games, basketball was staged at the Harringay arena on Green Lanes.)