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the architecture of in-between, where you're neither here nor there but always going somewhere.
means A narrow corridor or path that connects one space to another, built for moving through rather than staying.
from A compound of 'passage' and 'way,' both pointing in the same direction. 'Passage' comes through Old French 'passage' from 'passer,' to pass — itself rooted in Latin 'passus,' a step or stride (the same step that gives us 'pace'). 'Way' is older and homegrown, Old English 'weg,' meaning a path or road, a cousin of Latin 'via' and 'vehere,' to carry. So a passageway is, etymologically, a doubling-down: a way for passing, a path for stepping through — the language itself insisting that this is a place you go, not a place you arrive.
- secret history
- medieval castles hid escape passages behind fireplaces and bookshelves
- smuggler's friend
- Prohibition speakeasies linked through hidden urban tunnels
- body's design
- ear canal is a passageway funneling sound inward
- word roots
- derives from passage, meaning the act of going through
- liminal pull
- transitional spaces unsettle the brain, feeling eerily timeless
the catacombs of paris — underground limestone quarries beneath paris with 2 million skeletal remains, used as ossuary since 1786
channel tunnel — 50.5 km rail tunnel connecting england and france, opened 1994
vienna passages — interconnected underground shopping and pedestrian passages beneath vienna's city center