Typology: Market hall
By: Wilkinson, Tom
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Publisher: London EMAP Publishing Limited 2018Edition: 31 October 2018.Subject(s): ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)Online resources: Click here
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Architectural reviewSummary: The pleasures of the market are kaleidoscopic: fresh veg glowing under strip lights, barbarically scrawled signs, Essex-accented yells, and smells – even charmingly offensive smells, like the richness of raw poultry trimmings turning in hot bins, or the swampiness of sluiced fishmongers’ slabs. Such aromas moved Zola to compose his famous ‘cheese symphony’, a five-page paean to a fromagerie in Les Halles: ‘a slight whiff, a flute-like note, came from the parmesan’.
All of these are signs advertising abundance, promises of future satiety (always better than satiety itself). The architecture of the market is merely the stage for this enthralling drama. In some cases, however, the backdrop upstages the star.
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The pleasures of the market are kaleidoscopic: fresh veg glowing under strip lights, barbarically scrawled signs, Essex-accented yells, and smells – even charmingly offensive smells, like the richness of raw poultry trimmings turning in hot bins, or the swampiness of sluiced fishmongers’ slabs. Such aromas moved Zola to compose his famous ‘cheese symphony’, a five-page paean to a fromagerie in Les Halles: ‘a slight whiff, a flute-like note, came from the parmesan’.
All of these are signs advertising abundance, promises of future satiety (always better than satiety itself). The architecture of the market is merely the stage for this enthralling drama. In some cases, however, the backdrop upstages the star.
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