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[Darren Bradley]

While on my recent trip to Lyon, France (where I spent some of my teen years), I stopped in to see an underground parking garage. Doesn't everyone visit underground parking garages as part of the tourist circuit?

Anyway, this is no ordinary garage. From the street, all you see is a little open park square, with a strange periscope sticking out of the middle of it (inviting you to take a look):


What you see when you do is a seven-storey well with a constantly rotating mirror at the bottom of it, placed at an angle to reflect the walls around it.



The cars circulate around this well to enter and exit the garage. Since there are two concentric ramps, the cars going up and down never meet.

 

[Paul Lange]

It could almost be something out of a sci fi movie. Did you point the camera down the periscope?

 

[Darren Bradley]

No, I went below for a clearer view. That's why the oblique angle. The periscope is right over the center.

 

[Beth Carter]

that's cool.

 

[David Mitchell]

That is amazing, if I ever buy any land I am going to have to build one lol

 

[Lesley Jones]

That's just incredible. I forget the details now, but I think they had some kind of mirror installation in a tiny area in St Paul's Cathedral. I got quite excited until I read the bit about cameras being banned...

 

[Chris Dodkin]

That's just too cool Darren - complete Bond movie set material

Fancy going to that level of detail for a car park - brilliant

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That's just incredible. I forget the details now, but I think they had some kind of mirror installation in a tiny area in St Paul's Cathedral. I got quite excited until I read the bit about cameras being banned...

Leslie - I somehow managed to accidentally trigger my camera a number of times in St Paul's, and ended up with some lovely shots (all taken from my side)

No idea how that happened....

 

[Darren Bradley]

Thanks, guys! Glad you like! It's something you'd probably walk right past unless you knew to look. But it's fun stuff like that which makes for memorable sightseeing.

 

[Pete Askew]

What a great detail (and a super shot). If I am ever in Lyon I will look it out. Thanks.