The Commons
Where Recto lives and eats: terraces of college rooms and family flats, washing on the roofs, the long whitewashed Refectory where every academy must sit opposite another, the panelled Common Room whe...
Where Recto lives and eats: terraces of college rooms and family flats, washing on the roofs, the long whitewashed Refectory where every academy must sit opposite another, the panelled Common Room whe...
Covered streets of cast iron and glass where the instrument makers, tailors, hand-wrap weavers, tea merchants and printers of offprints keep their shops, and where the Exchange takes bets on every rev...
The old university on the higher ground of the Band: limestone college blocks with flat roofs, arcades and courtyards, the Palaestra of the Grove, the Observatory's tower with its three green domes, a...
The great paved square of the 1958 Congress: the long limestone Index Hall where every citation in Recto is counted, the Congress Hall where the closing banquet of 30 September 1958 is still laid exac...
The strip along the Edge where the Band runs out: stubble fields and juniper, allotments, the wooden Edge Station, and the long trench of the unfinished Cut of 1971, in whose terraced walls the uncite...