On December 23 2011, that's one thousand and ninety six days ago, I took this photograph.
1096 Days ago.
Three years and one day ago.
It is a picture of a cardboard tower. A model of The University of Sheffield Arts Tower.
The cardboard tower was on the 18th floor of the actual Arts Tower.
I didn't look in through the window of the eighteenth floor for fear I would see myself inside leaning over looking into a cardboard tower.
On the higher floors, fifteenth or so, when there is a decent wind, it feels like you are on a boat. Everyone loves that sensation.
This tower was in no way modelled on the Eiffel Tower. Other than having novel mechanisms for travelling within the building, and them being towers, there is little similarity. The Arts Tower has the paternoster, a lift mechanism that defies the modern tenets of health and safety. The Eiffel Tower has a lift that disconcertingly makes the passenger feel as though it is going to pop out of the top as the tower appears to narrow impossibly.
The paternoster is brilliant, long may it continuously travel. Ditto for the Eiffel Tower lift, albeit in the interrupted manner of a traditional lift.
Merry Christmas
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