• finleyEnglish
    4•2 months ago

    It’s good to build nice stations, but hyperstylized stations like this will look weird and dated in 30-40 years.

    As for the cost? Don’t be so sure that a station built this way necessarily cost too much more than some dull drum station design. 99% of the cost of underground metro stations is in digging out the thing.

    • @grueEnglish
      4•2 months ago

      but hyperstylized stations like this will look weird and dated in 30-40 years.

      Yeah, but if they survive another few decades after that without being torn down / remodeled, they graduate to historic and become cool again.

      The key is to not let the the public get a hold of them in that interim period when everybody thinks they suck (looking at you, brutalism).

      Personally, I’m a fan of the style of the 1970s-1980s era metro stations in my city and (unlike the transit authority) don’t think they need to be renovated.

      • finleyEnglish
        1•2 months ago

        Yeah, but if they survive another few decades after that without being torn down / remodeled, they graduate to historic and become cool again.

        Maybe, maybe not. The TWA terminal at JFK - and exemplar or mid-60s modernism - is an eyesore.

        And Brutalism, to many, was always an eyesore.

        • @grueEnglish
          1•2 months ago

          The TWA terminal at JFK - and exemplar or mid-60s modernism - is an eyesore.

          What? Why? I’ve never been there in person, but I’m looking at pictures of it and I like it.

          (I will admit it doesn’t look very ADA-compliant, though.)

        • @[email protected]English
          1•2 months ago

          The Futurist one designed by Eero Saarinen? That has certainly survived the test of time.

    • @[email protected]
      2•2 months ago

      Not just this, other stations on line are really fancy, lots of sandstone, huge open spaces, extravagant artworks… it’s really impressive for a city that’s usually pretty tacky.

      Ya I think most of the budget issues are tunneling related.