Thursday 2 August 2007

Warren Street

I don't know whether anyone else has ever noticed this, but there's something odd about the mazes at Warren Street tube station.

Go down to Warren Street Victoria line platforms. Go to the northbound platform. Have a look at all the mazes on the walls. They look identical, but if you look closely you will see that one of them is slightly different - there's no way of getting into the centre.

Was this an error made when creating the mazes? Or is it some deliberate quirk?

The chances of anyone actually knowing this are miniscule, but if you were the person responsible for creating the Warren Street mazes, please let me know. With the history of The Empty Vessel it seems somehow apt that one of the labyrinths at Warren Street can't be escaped from...

Follow-up - there's some information on the Warren Street maze here: http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/maze/branch.htm. However, there's no mention of the 'blocked' maze which suggests it's a mistake. I've also found out that Alan Fletcher, the designer of the maze, died only last year: http://www.designmuseum.org/design/alan-fletcher. However, other sources quote a different designer, John Burrel, but I can't find any other links to him.

You can see a panorama of Warren Street tube here, but it doesn't show the blocked maze: http://www.urban75.org/vista/warren_st.html.

Please let me know if you have any more information about the Warren Street mazes.

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