Underground Rating

The Chinese news agency "Xinhua" has published a ranking of the ten most impressive architectural solutions in the underground world.

In first place was the transport system Bund Sightseeing Tunnel in Shanghai. Her long tunnel 647 meters literally entangled in spectacular optics that when the composition creates the illusion of multi-colored threads.





On the second place of the rating placed the Moscow metro station "Komsomolskaya" Circle Line, named "one of the key" in the transport system of the Russian capital, and embodies all the typical architectural merits of the Moscow metro.



Extravagant German metro station - Bockenheimer Warte Frankfurt - took the third place ranking. Entrance to it is made in the form of a train car, falls to the ground at an angle.



Arch, designed for metro Bilbao Spanish architect and designer Norman Foster, marked the fourth place of the list. This work is considered one of the greatest achievements of the British master.



Top five closes the City Hall station in New York, considered one of the most beautiful in the underground transport system, not only the city, but the whole country.



Another American metro station - O'Hare in Chicago, built in 1984, was on the sixth place. Its distinguishing feature, in addition to bright decorations are walls formed in the shape of a wave.



Seventh place went to the Dubai Metro. One of the stations is designed as a clam shell, and the interior is decorated with a giant chandelier in the shape of the jellyfish.



On the eighth place is a cave-station Stockholm subway with glowing murals.



It occupies the penultimate position of the subway station in Pyongyang, made in the spirit of socialist realism.



Closes ten made in the style of industrial design in Munich subway.

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