"And when it does not look like it stands up, or it does not look like it functions, then it functions and stands differently."
Peter Esienman
The Tricorn ley line passes through the two spiral ramps which edge the building to the south east and north. One of the ramps spirals up and the other spirals down, into the cavern below. This is where the spirits pass. |
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Dr. Mintern
realised this way down whilst measuring the position of the Winter Solstice
sunrise, from the top of the Tricorn, in 1994.
He wrote the Tricorn poem soon after beginning his survey of 'our atheist cathedral'. |
TRICORN
"...it is the jewel in Palmerston's crown, the light at the centre..." A
cold war cathedral, built to be buried |
DEMOLITION STARTS IN JANUARY 1998!