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LiminalSpace

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Liminal spaces are the subject of an Internet aesthetic portraying empty or abandoned places that appear eerie, forlorn, and often surreal. Liminal spaces are commonly places of transition (pertaining to the concept of liminality) or of nostalgic appeal.

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The challenge is, can you figure out where it is.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Correct!

It's behind the big screens, between them and the outer skin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

... figured it was a stadium of sorts... but which one!?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It's in London, if that helps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Cool! It just looked like it curved like one...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, this is a theater in London, I saw a Tom Scott video about it. That stairway leads up to where the lighting arrays are and to roof access.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unfortunately not, though it is in London.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Aw, I was sure that was the building, the metal staircase iwth metal frame walls and such looks very similar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think it's a standard permanent scaffolding setup. I've seen it at a lot of venues. This is one of the few that give proper liminal space vibes though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Service area in the new arena for the 2025 US Hunger Games

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A roller coaster track, or some kind of panopticon walkway in a prison?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Behind some kind of scoreboard?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Closest so far.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Dildo factory

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Is this a foxconn assembly plant / dormatory?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Looks like the insides of a large sculpture or monument installation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Rotary prison?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It does have that feel, crossed with a Borg cube.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

High up inside new Wembley Stadium.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not Wembley. Wembley is remarkably efficient in its space usage, so no big open cavities.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

👎 Millennium dome is mostly fabric.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

O2 Arena is the millennium dome. It was sold and renamed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, the arena is inside the fabric.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The whole thing was rebranded as the O2 Arena. You won't see millennium dome anywhere onsite.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Haven't seen the dome since it was built, it will always be The Millennium Dome in my heart.

Charming, like the resonance sway of The Millennium Bridge on opening week.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Same here. Apparently the media teams had the terminology change drummed into them quite hard. They really wanted the rebranding to stick.

I didn't have any jobs there over that period, so that's second hand info.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

THIS is what the comm is for! Perfect liminal space, fascinating to boot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Inside of a conveyor belt?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Wrong scale.