The future is yellow: revisiting Adam Ant's Corbusian stairwell
So what does that Southbank stairwell look like now? Er, the stairwell in the photo of Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni in the 1980 CBS Catalogue booklet I blogged about the other day. This one: Yes, because after finishing my must-read post on A&TA I thought I'd quickly visit the Southbank Centre and check out the stairwell all these (46) years later. Did the stairwell even exist after nearly half a century? And also, how would I find it in the sprawling Southbank area, with all its multi-level ramps, walkways and skatepark chaos? Easy. I found what looked like the exact spot on Google Street View in about two minutes. Going down there last Thursday, dodging all the tourists and commuters (including former Tory MP, Dominic Grieve, entering Temple tube as I was exiting), I then found it straight away. And here it is, resplendent (is that the word?) in banana-ish yellow. Er, yeah, yellow. Very yellow. And here's my imperfect recreation of the actual Ant-Pirroni shot: Yellowness...
