The aesthetics of convenience

I went to the Science Museum Lates recently, and saw another cut away V2 rocket. They have one in the Imperial War museum too. I find them fascinating. There's this smooth, symmetric, aerodynamic, surface, but within it is a chaotic profusion of tubes of different sizes, lengths and materials. And each one of them is there for a reason. None of them just look pretty, they're all transporting liquids to somewhere it's needed.

In a similar way, I love the world beneath and behind the smooth fascade we're presented with. I remember being equally fascinated with a couple of holes dug into London streets recently.

And why am I brining this up now? There's clearly some sort of temporarily abandoned repair work at work. You can see the wood cladding. The roughly broken tiles that the cladding covers. The smashed bricks behind that. Then a hollow cavity with pipes and tubing. You'll have to imagine it though, as I'm not getting my camera out by the urinals.