Macca - Villacrosse Passage
Forked glass-roofed shopping arcade of iron and yellow panes, bending around a block that never sold.
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This guide to the Macca-Vilacrosse Passage in Bucharest looks at the covered arcade as a built object: its forked plan, its iron and yellow glass roof, and the late eighteen-eighties land deal behind it. It follows a merchant's two daughters, their dowries and the two husbands whose names the arms carry. Best heard standing under the glass where the two lanes split.
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