“Nakatomi space, wherein buildings reveal near-infinite interiors, capable of being traversed through all manner of non-architectural means”. Exploring the Nakatomi space within the brutalist SOAS library and UCL’s Institute of Education at Bedford way. Much of the university campus here is connected via service tunnels, which run utilities between buildings from centralized plant rooms. At points these tunnels…

Beneath the heaving, unpleasant streets of Camden lies a secret unknown to the hoards of tourists and market traders up above – a long-forgotten labyrinth of tunnels and vaults that are relics of the area’s colourful Victorian industrial past. Colloquially known as ‘The Camden Catacombs’ the tunnels were in fact not used to store bodies, but as stables for…

Deep beneath the streets of South Kensington lies a hidden labyrinth of service and utility tunnels which reach beneath the wider Albertropolis area, criss-crossing the Imperial University Campus and connecting to basements of The Science Museum and Natural History Museum. The tunnel network dates back to the period of the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park, when a public pedestrian…