survey office
The cellars, drains and cisterns under the Conservatory, where its roots go where they please. A survey office at the top of the stairs holds Echo's tracings, pinned in layers to every wall; below it, the brick tunnels run for miles, hung with pale roots as thick as an arm, which cross every boundary between language families and quarantine zones. On the floor of the largest cistern, in chalk, Echo has drawn what the tracings make together: seven concentric rings and a ramp. Visitors are given a...
Located in The Architecture of Babel.