Field guide No. 1452
Inside out brick tunnel
The outside is in here somewhere.
A vaulted brick tunnel whose far opening shows a sunlit street of brick walls still curving overhead. The tunnel never quite ends.
Field noteBrickwork arches overhead, then becomes open street under sky without ever stopping being tunnel.
- Specimen
- No. 1452
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A brick underpass that opens onto its own interior.
- Nearest existing relative
- A railway arch.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
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