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sph
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Europe’s agenda for undersea internet cables
Props to that article for finding the gloomiest picture of the English station of the Eurotunnel. Brexit has been hard but it's not a nuclear winter just yet.
danielbln
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That looks like it's straight out of Children Of Men. I guess a picture from St. Pancras wouldn't quite have the same punch.
odiroot
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England is very into that retro-Soviet palette.
Aromasin
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Brutalist architecture; quite possibly the worst thing come out of post-WW2 Britain, just behind Piers Morgan.
Joker_vD
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Many people for some reason believe that Brutalism was a Soviet invention but no, it originated in the post-WW2 Britain and spread from there.
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It was heavily influenced from outside Britain though, particularly Le Corbusier
cjrp
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To be fair, the Folkestone terminal is quite... functional.
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