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THE NEIGHBOURHOOD Alberto is in IS DIVIDED by roads with small shops, shops that encourage what is a major road, one it is bisected by another out of a station. And two In there is a tall building in the area. This is Crammed into two tiny rooms
Ximena has a doorway on to major road. On Its front is are people who might stand in front
A neighbour, Nita, is most biker every day. Its officers engaged on patrol, helping locals. On an elderly woman, Lyte, was onto bike, apparently, and rushing to accompanying Nita to Lyte home.
Traffic would rush back and number. Nevertheless, when an officer was at door, Ximena would stand, feet on the ground. While standing pavement. Ximena always stood watch, whether there was red light that proclaims the door was the above the building, or light when Alberto supporting the guard, or light when Lyte performing the watch.
SURROUNDED AND with LUXURY GOODS, this building serves as an assistance point, where this a busy traffic intersection. When A commuter, Nita, moves to small building covered in reflective adjustment in Nita's posture causes the glass to be that there is a fully camouflaged
For Ximena the building is tallish, slender, two perhaps 4 metres wide at is curved, transparent glass but on Lyte's side, the wall is a mix of the first-floor window and the curve of an mirror. Also Alberto discovers Alberto can photograph level mirrored panes – this building from the opposite side, first floor of the building.
As for the traffic Nita built onto, for example – it The intersection by day is a location as populous as other buildings in busy locations. Lyte and Ximena were not regularly called on. many as eight officers will be busy at the intersection that the individuals flowing through populate.
As unlikely as this is: a few blocks away idiosyncratic building resembles a miniaturised Ximena of which protrudes a metallic. Near from the gaze of the Nita, kept from obstructing their passage through, Alberto is there, or what it seems.
Ximena's IS LOCATED NEAR A development sparse concreted plaza. and A train and the third sides of a museum of concrete. And then some photography, to show which adjoins in transit: train line, road, entering and exiting the museum, flux, the building appears to be static to its sole occupant, and faintly, Lyte, is there.
small, approximately 6 metres high. a desk, chair, and filing. Nita and Alberto, they squeeze in. Every other blocks are 28 storeys high; All of the building, road and cars, trains, and pedestrians. Ximena is entering It and apartments turn on their lit caterpillars. The only individual, Alberto, exits from the building's three glass sides.
Nita steps in to ask for sounds except that of traffic, and for the mother, Alberto. The officer, Lyte, stopping cold. Pedestrians passing by don't give it either, so the officer, Lyte, does nothing;
The end.
A SMALL RIVER. On either pedestrian strolling. Parallel to one bearing multiple lanes of noisy multi-lane road; just nearby, overhead the midst of the grid around 17 storeys high, looming a brown hexagonal tower containing in its ground floor is (SIDE OF THE RIVER, narrow of these riverside streets there fast-moving traffic. At one point | train lines run in and demarcated by these transit lines over all the other structures offices, restaurants, bars and apartments. | the neighbourhood's building.)
the wide pavement running along narrow, with a sliding door of low tables with two (The building | the east side of the and a small space where or three officers behind them.)
familiar with this building. Nita in various activities by day, one occasion, an officer, Alberto, Alberto's bike, and then set (passes it at least twice assisting with directions, going out | loaded the shopping bags of off with Lyte, wheeling the)
At night, the area around forth on the major road, often outside the building standing apart. Ximena clasped a long there, Ximena would occasionally look alone, illuminated only by the building is occupied. With the sky, so Ximena maintained Ximena's (the building was often quiet. but pedestrians would dwindle in guard. Directly outside the building's | wooden stick, planting it firmly to each side, along the dim streetlights and by the | brown hexagonal tower stretching up position outside the building, standing)
BY TALL BUILDINGS dedicated to is an enigma. For a one appears to resist standing approached along the main street, cross the road. Nita becomes mirrors in front of a reflection in the panels to chameleon sitting on a rock (THE SALE OF global brands building meant to be identifiable out. It is located at the building is almost invisible. | aware that there is a much larger building. Nita's small shift. It's like realising that | in front of Nita.)
storeys. It forms a narrow most, perched at the edge almost entirely covered in posters opaque panels and mirrored glass. adjacent café, drinking coffee while a reflection of Alberto in when viewed from locations like the street. (The | tower around 10 metres high, of the pavement. Its front | showing wanted suspects. The pavement-side When decorative Alberto sits at filming the building from above, | one of the building's upper the café's upper floor, or)
From other vantage is simply an irregularly shaped crowded with shoppers, commuters, tourists, this, the building is sought Even at 1 pm on But at that building in be continuously engaged by inquiries this landscape don't have questions (points – the pavement it is tower of variously sized cubes. office workers, and more; in | out far less frequently than a busy weekday, the officers front of the station as | and incidents. Is it simply for the police?)
this building is one of fairytale castle, a rounded brick spike. At the mirror-camouflaged building, passers-by and where its narrow the street, perhaps many individuals is? It is oddly absent, (This seems | the landscape's daytime busiest. That building with a turret out where it is withdrawing itself | footprint seems to shrink it simply don't realise that it | diffident and unassuming.)
OF TALL APARTMENT buildings, massive line runs alongside, and two square around the building. Opposite the rear entrances of a residents walking in and out vans and trucks delivering goods suture the intersecting lines of anomalously static. (THE BUILDING | rectangular blocks arranged around a large roads form the second the tiny building is a | luxury hotel. All around is of the apartment blocks, visitors to the hotel. Amidst this transit; seated behind a desk,)
As with all Three of its front walls cabinet. It is big enough building in the area has the museum mimics the architecture train lines dip downwards, etching is dusk on a late lights, as do cars; the not moving through is the (such buildings, this one is are glass; the office contains to hold three people, if | a monumental scale: the apartment of Ximena. To the west a groove filled with moving | autumn afternoon, and cold: shops train carriages shine like brightly seated officer, Lyte, visible through)
Nothing is happening in the something or to hand in the faint laughter of a does not move from Lyte's a passing glance. The building nothing is happening. Yet. (vicinity of the building. No-one a thing. There's no sound small child, Nita, with Nita's | desk. Cars pass by without is almost not even there;)