• finley
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    22 days 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.

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      22 days 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.

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      22 days 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.

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        22 days 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.

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          22 days 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.)