More Sydney Metro photos: Gadigal (Town Hall) station to Martin Place
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More Sydney Metro photos: Gadigal (Town Hall) station to Martin Place
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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.
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.
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.
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.)
The Futurist one designed by Eero Saarinen? That has certainly survived the test of time.
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.