Currently, hot pop-up and street-food collective The Hall (the bánh mi from Little Green Cyclo are outstanding) is making waves in an abandoned snooker hall, previously only notable for people shooting up in its doorways.
Downstairs, the huge old doorways have been glassed in to throw light on a large open-plan communal space with a modern kitchen, bench tables and long sofas which can sleep three more.
Looking up into the shafts, we see another world, fragmentary views of light wells and corners, doorways and shuttered windows, air-conditioning units and alleys.
"In the Mood for Love" also carried off the "technicians'" prize for its designer and photographers including Christopher Doyle, an Australian veteran who confined the players in claustrophobic Hong Kong apartments seen through doorways like Sickert paintings.Just an hour and 38 minutes long, this was orientalism "lite".
Its houses are eccentric, with Tudor chimneys and Italian doorways, and they sit around a spacious green planted with laburnum trees.
The plaza is empty except for a few delegates smoking and chatting in doorways.
A STROLL along Oxford Street in central London this week revealed a mass of shoppers and tourists, eight homeless men sleeping in doorways, one smiling beggar without legs and an eager peanut seller.
When I stuck my head out the window to look, one cop started, reached up with his rifle to smash a silver strip-light overhead, and resumed the violence.American marines on night patrols in western Iraq, who I have accompanied a few times, have a similar habit of smashing fluorescent strip-lights illuminating shuttered shop-fronts and doorways.
All the notes will carry the same designs, the winning entries in a competition held in 1996, incorporating the EU flag and pictures of bridges, windows and doorways (to represent European "openness and togetherness").
And out of her peeling, greenish doorways could come women in furs, or pink hair-curlers, or orange-striped socks.She did not rate her own work highly.
