Comments on: Red Route

By: Steve Smith

Steve Smith — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:21:24 +0000

The corridor at Llandough Hospital in Wales is over 500m long & dead straight.

By: Bruno Roubicek

Bruno Roubicek — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:55:55 +0000

Your Leeds email address is not working for some reason.
However, I’m very keen to contribute to this blog. Thanks, Bruno

Hi,
I’m doing Phd research at Birkbeck on Performance in Urban Green Spaces. I’ve been doing experiments here in South East London for a few years.
“Man Digs Pond” was my latest effort. A 24hr show during which the audience could watch me create a wildlife pond in an open access green space.
Have a look at the 7 minute version in the link below. I’d love to contribute to the blog and maybe meet contributors to talk about their work.
Best wishes,
Bruno Roubicek, Hon Research Fellow and Phd Candidate, Birkbeck, University of London.
https://vimeo.com/41465699

By: Phil Smith

Phil Smith — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:28:03 +0000

Just a quick note to say how much I enjoyed the corridor meander with it overhead projections. It was elegant! A fine alternative to the mytho-jumble
– ‘it is not always enough to say, “Long live the multiple,” difficult as it to raise the cry. No typographical, lexical, or even syntactical cleverness is enough to make it heard. The multiple must be made, not always by adding a higher dimension, but rather in the simplest of ways, by dint of sobriety’ (Clever & Clogs, 1987: 7). The walk was illuminating, sited and immersive, convivial, pleasingly segmented, repeatedly looking out but always returning inward (a good in and out pulse). Not only did you involve us in the movement of kit, but with those opening questions “pick-up”, “lackey”… we were ‘in question’ within it – so you set up the event (without pressing the point) as one that might have bearing upon us, not a discussion of space and ideas we could stand back from. We were discreetly implicated. I also liked the subtle apocalypse of trees
– all the best for having already happened; what an enigmatically abject space that ‘square of shops’ has become!

By: Aaron Franks

Aaron Franks — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:45:06 +0000

University architecture. At the uni I did my MA at, Brock in Canada, there is a complex of concrete buildings (the Mackenzie Chown complex) from the 60’s, diamond shaped modules connected by slightly asymetrical corridors. It is said it was designed that way to quickly seal off and contain potential student unrest.

http://www.brocku.ca/webfm_send/1367

You can see a set of diamonds and corridors near the middle, numbered 4 for the key.

By: Roger Boyle

Roger Boyle — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:35:24 +0000

If you had gone down Staircase 1, would would have found at Level 7 some rather good photos of the building(s) under construction.
I had these framed and mounted for the Computer Science jubilee in 2007.

By: Ed Salkeld

Ed Salkeld — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 08:44:52 +0000

Thanks so much for making this available. I went on the Light Night tour a couple of years ago and it was fascinating, so this is really appreciated.

By: Zoe Crompton

Zoe Crompton — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:13:36 +0000

I’m listening to the audio file in my room and imagining the walk – I’ve done it lots of times as I work at the far end of EC Stoner. I love Red Route as a sign of the times from the 60s. I’m interested by which of my choice of footwear squeaks the most as I walk down it, if only I had a Segue…

By: Steve Bottoms

Steve Bottoms — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:14:14 +0000

Well, maybe so. But check out the start of the recording. There are many buildings that lay claim to ‘longest corridor’ status. Don’t ask me why…

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:54:55 +0000

Second longest corridor in Europe. The longest is now in the EU Parliament building.