Physical

It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 meters into the air. 

a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons

 there seemed to be no colour in anything 

Emotional

“ It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.” 

“A kilometre away the Ministry of Truth, his place of work, towered vast and white above the grimy landscape.”

His heart leapt. Scores of times she had done it: he wished it had been hundreds—thousands. Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope