Amazing subway station architecture (home, build)

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Originally Posted by cisco kid

Boy, that looks exactly like the BART stations they have in the SF bay area. Which all look exactly alike. I bet many US cities use the same builder and supplier for their metro systems. So they all look like they came from the same cookie cutter assembly line and probably did.

They were both built within 10 years of each other so that probably reflects popular styles of the times. 70s and 80s had some pretty ugly aesthetics!

[cisco kid]

More amazing, jaw-dropping architecture. Way too many to list them all. It seems as if all these cities keep trying to outdo one another all the time. The level of creativity is pretty fantastic. Enjoy.


Prague Gallery - metrobits.org

Naples Gallery - metrobits.org

Shanghai Gallery - metrobits.org

Saint Petersburg Gallery - metrobits.org

Berlin Gallery - metrobits.org

Bochum Gallery - metrobits.org

Bonn Gallery - metrobits.org

Oporto Gallery - metrobits.org

Dortmund Gallery - metrobits.org

[nei]

Tokyo also had amusing subway etiquette reminders:

Vintage Tokyo subway manner posters ~ Pink Tentacle

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Originally Posted by nei

Tokyo also had amusing subway etiquette reminders:

Vintage Tokyo subway manner posters ~ Pink Tentacle

I love those train monsters!

[geoking66]

Originally Posted by HandsUpThumbsDown

They were both built within 10 years of each other so that probably reflects popular styles of the times. 70s and 80s had some pretty ugly aesthetics!

The Washington Metro was built then and is still the only aesthetically-pleasing piece of brutalist architecture ever made. Simply stunning, but even beautiful coffered vault ceilings and a sci-fi feeling can't make up for 17min waits on the weekend during the day…

[cisco kid]

Indeed. Every station in the Washington Metro appears to be built in exactly the same monotonous, dreary style; that of a brutalist, colorless concrete dungeon. The design of which is reminescent of being trapped in a '50s era nuclear fallout shelter. Or Stalin's tomb.

Imagine if you are relying on such a system to get around day to day and nearly every one of the 80+ stations in the network looks virtually identical. It can drive you nuts. If not something of a challenge to tell where you are in the system.










I don't know whether to laugh or to cry.

[scarletneon]

Originally Posted by cisco kid

Indeed. Every station in the Washington Metro appears to be built in exactly the same monotonous, dreary style; that of a brutalist, colorless concrete dungeon. The design of which is reminescent of being trapped in a '50s era nuclear fallout shelter. Or Stalin's tomb.

Imagine if you are relying on such a system to get around day to day and nearly every one of the 80+ stations in the network looks virtually identical. It can drive you nuts. If not something of a challenge to tell where you are in the system.










I don't know whether to laugh or to cry.

I have a hard time understanding when people say the DC metro stations are so amazing. They are cold feeling and dark. It's really hard to see anything down there!

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Originally Posted by geoking66

The Washington Metro was built then and is still the only aesthetically-pleasing piece of brutalist architecture ever made. Simply stunning, but even beautiful coffered vault ceilings and a sci-fi feeling can't make up for 17min waits on the weekend during the day…

Never complain about frequency of transit in Washington. Just be thankful you don't live in Baltimore!

I am a brutalist fan and I do like a lot of the WMATA architecture but so much of it is EXACTLY the same. If you took out all the singage and dropped me in an any subway station I'd have a pretty tough time figuring in out.

WMATA also had a lot of extra money to design that system.

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Originally Posted by scarletneon

I have a hard time understanding when people say the DC metro stations are so amazing. They are cold feeling and dark. It's really hard to see anything down there!

It really makes sense in the blazing DC summer heat; they seem cooler to me than NYC's subway stations in heat.

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Originally Posted by cisco kid

Indeed. Every station in the Washington Metro appears to be built in exactly the same monotonous, dreary style; that of a brutalist, colorless concrete dungeon. The design of which is reminescent of being trapped in a '50s era nuclear fallout shelter. Or Stalin's tomb.

Imagine if you are relying on such a system to get around day to day and nearly every one of the 80+ stations in the network looks virtually identical. It can drive you nuts. If not something of a challenge to tell where you are in the system.










I don't know whether to laugh or to cry.

You make some good points but it's not that soul crushing. At least the concrete is more decorative than the "strictly business" designs in the Bart and Baltimore's metro. Riding the metro is like taking a time machine back to the 80s, which is when I grew up so I like it.