In a circular way, Liverpool Street Station reminds me more of Grand Central Station than Grand Central Station does.

Impatient people always arrive too late.

— Jean Dutourd

Trips to visit my folks in England have always taken me through London’s Liverpool Street Station. I have visited it far more frequently than my own country’s Grand Central Station in New York City.

Thus, in a circular way, Liverpool Street Station reminds me more of Grand Central Station than Grand Central Station does.

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Liverpool Street Station

No, that probably isn’t supposed to make any sense. And New York wins the architecture prize, hands down.

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