City of clusters

The long distance view of Demontfort University's 1991 Queens Building with its innovative ventilation towers . Captured from the 12th floor of Leicester City Council HQ New Walk Centre.

Lovely vistas all around the city which stretch far into the countryside beyond. From that height the streets, the cars and buses look so small as they weave through the patchwork of buildings below.

More poignantly you get a feeling of a city of clusters... Like DMU here, The Cultural Quarter, Greyfriars, Highcross, and the Town Hall Square. They merge beautifully in a collision of windows, apexes and fire escapes rising up to a mid point pinnacle; these discernible peaks and troughs seem uncontrollably allied to the rise and fall of a passing invisible wave. The building or spire at the fulcrum exerting, like gravity, a pull of definition and purpose on the surrounding orbital structures. Makes me wonder if this view has influenced the City Council's policies on planning and culture in the city.

I was also interested in the far off structures, like wind turbines and radio masts which look down on the urban patchwork. These structures, again as if in orbit, around the city of Leicester firmly within its sphere of influence.

Took many more pictures on my analogue camera body on beautiful black and white 35mm film. Can't wait get them developed!