Urban workers need places to escape the frantic pace of London, and so a slow sports centre in the City of London offers a chance to engage in time-honoured leisure pursuits like bowls, chess, tiddlywinks, and staring contests. These sports pride themselves on the languidness and carefulness with which they have to be practiced, so different from other kinds of activities that demand speed and aggression. In this new building, sunk as it is into an existing basement car park below an urban square, the stretching out of the sensations of time is also investigated graphically in the form of sliced and specially extended drawings.
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