Metro Design

Of all forms of public transport is important for us metro.Podzemnye town with its own laws, rules and rhythm of life, to help people from the ground to get from point A to point B quickly and without any problems. Historically, that the station - the key points of the city, the center of life for the whole metro - decided to do not just a boring rooms, and give them individuality, arrange them so that people go underground, was surrounded by beauty, not gloom and despondency . Several dozen meters of land over your head - it's still not very nice.
Of course, these days not every subway station has a unique design. But we found some subways with an unusual design and the most amazing and collected them in this article.


StokgolmEsli most subways stand design and architecture of several stations, the Tunnelbana, Stockholm subway is almost entirely a work of art.
On the design of work stations 140 artists, and it is the longest art gallery in the world, which constantly hosts exhibitions of contemporary art.













































MyunhenMetro in Munich opened only in 1971, but it already has 100 stations - only 1.4 million inhabitants. Because of the high density of stations, routes and reasonableness of the absolute security of elevators, escalators and travelators U-Bahn Munchen is considered one of the most convenient subway in the world.
And one of the most futuristic in terms of design.









































PragaEdinstvennoe metro in the Czech Republic was opened in 1974, and its construction engineers had solved more than one difficult task when passing under the historic quarter and the River Vltava.

Almost all of the line A of the Prague metro has 13 stations, designed in the same style - walls lined with shiny squares with convex and concave hemispheres. The only thing that distinguishes the station - colors of this high-tech design tiles.
























Metro ParizhParizhskomu world owes himself the title of such transport systems. "Metropolitan" - it got accustomed contraction of the phrase "metropolitan railway» (chemin de fer metropolitain). Paris subway is the third in Europe, which opened in 1900 after London and Budapest. Almost all of the old station, designed in Art Nouveau style, the new or nothing interesting in itself does not represent or made out in accordance with the current trends of street art. With some pleasant exceptions. For instance, the station "Madeleine" is decorated with 40-foot stained glass window "Speckled Hen" by Russian artist Ivan Lobennikova. Parisians touching the bird called "la Poule Ryaba» (Ryaba la Poule).

























DubaiOdin of the youngest underground in the world - opened in September 2009 (9.09.2009 in 9:09:09 seconds), but built accelerated pace. For two years nimble Arabs naotkryvali has 46 stations. As befits the United Arab Emirates, carried out in a big metro. All entries are made in the form of hi-tec-shells, the interior of the station is also shocking.

It is also interesting that the train divided into three parts: the head can be accessed only by those who bought "golden" travel, separated parts of cars designed exclusively for women and children, and 80% of the train - the usual places.
























New YorkSabvey New York has the most among all the metro stations of the world, but almost half of the tracks and stations are on the ground or even above it. Metro is renowned for its filthy, rat, and a complex system of routes, when one station you can go in several directions, and the schedule of routes depending on the time of day and days of the week.













The most beautiful station of the New York subway - City Hall. It was opened in 1904 on the first line, its elegant romantic design represented a "new subway in New York," which was supposed to be proud of every citizen. However, when you update the system underground in the 40s the station was too short to stop the train. In addition, the distance from the middle door of each car a distance substantially greater than the safety standards. And December 31, 1945 was the last day of the work of City Hall Station. Now it is part of the Museum of New York Transit, visit her be a member of the museum by appointment and payment. However, City Hall, and see those who come from downtown 6 train on the route.















ShanhayV transportation system in Shanghai is particularly notable Bund Sightseeing Tunnel. This 647-meter tunnel, all entangled in the optical fiber, which creates a way for a variety of lighting effects. Go through the tunnel tiny trailers without drivers and with fairly modest speed, otherwise avoid dizziness, nausea and even seizures. It is certainly more tourist attractions, but also they are Shanghaians overtake at this event.





















Santiago Chile's main subway station deserves special attention, "University of Chile." The huge panoramic murals tells the story of the country.









TorontoStantsiyu Museum Metro Toronto, which is next to the Royal Ontario Museum, began to be restored in 2007. In 2008, the restoration was completed, and the station was decorated with columns with images of the gods of different cultures, Native American totems, Doric columns and other, and other.

















MoskvaMoskovsky underground, is familiar to many of you, one of the largest in the world. According to the annual passenger traffic it is second only to the Tokyo subway. Unlike many large metro station in Moscow almost all located underground. Only 10 are on the ground and five above ground.
Domestic Metro famous worldwide registration stations built under Stalin and later it. Socialist realism, Stalin's empire, "palace" and pathos - many stations are located within the Circle Line. We have long been accustomed to, and foreign guests enjoy such underground palaces in an amount no more than anywhere else. The brightest stations, which are examples of Stalin's empire, is Komsomolskaya and Kievskaya.





































St. PeterburgPosle opening November 15, 1955 was the second in the USSR after the Moscow metro and the deepest in the world at an average depth of the stations.
And, of course, St. Petersburg would not be St. Petersburg, though the subway in the city was not intelligent in design.



















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