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We see two office workers silhouetted against the large orange wall of the Credit Lyonnais Bank, rushing to work through Broadgate in the City of London, UK. The figures are reduced to black shapes and without detail that may identify them or their clothes, are hurrying in different directions, one is a lady carrying a bag but the feeling of rushing business is seen and their scale is ambiguous because we don't know how close or far away they are from each other. The female therefore looks a giant and the man, tiny. Broadgate Estate is a large, 32 acre (129,000 m²) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and managed by Broadgate Estates. It was originally built by Rosehaugh and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of Canary Wharf in the early 1990s..

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We see two office workers silhouetted against the large orange wall  of the Credit Lyonnais Bank, rushing to work through Broadgate in the City of London, UK. The figures are reduced to black shapes and without detail that may identify them or their clothes, are hurrying in different directions, one is a lady carrying a bag  but the feeling of rushing business is seen and their scale is ambiguous because  we don't know how close or far away they are from each other. The female therefore looks a  giant and the man, tiny. Broadgate Estate is a large, 32 acre (129,000 m²) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and managed by Broadgate Estates. It was originally built by Rosehaugh and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of Canary Wharf in the early 1990s..
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