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viernes, 30 de marzo de 2012

Operación Salida, Semana Santa 2012

Ya estamos de vacaciones de Semana Santa. La Operación Salida empezaba, hoy 30 de marzo, a las 15:00 horas. Paciencia y precaución en la carretera, lo importante es LLEGAR AL DESTINO.

A continuación os dejo una noticia, sobre el estado de las carreteras, al inicio de la Operación Salida.

Arranca la operación salida de Semana Santa con el tráfico habitual del viernes

La operación especial de Tráfico con motivo de las vacaciones de Semana Santa, en la que se prevén que se produzcan 14 millones de desplazamientos, ha arrancado a las 15:00 horas sin problemas circulatorios a la salida de las grandes ciudades, salvo las complicaciones habituales de cualquier otro viernes.
Así, la M-40 a la altura de Coslada y en dirección a la autovía del Mediterráneo (A-3) presenta tráfico lento del kilómetro 3 al 12, al igual que otras autovías de salida de la capital como la A-5 a su paso por Móstoles o la A-1 en el municipio de Alcobendas.

En Barcelona, es la B-20 en diferentes puntos kilométricos de salida de la ciudad la vía que presenta circulación más lenta, especialmente en Santa Coloma de Gramanet.

La Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT) estima que se produzcan desde esta tarde y hasta la medianoche del lunes 9 de abril catorce millones de desplazamientos, lo que convierte la Semana Santa en el periodo festivo del año más conflictivo en cuanto a tráfico, ya que en un poco tiempo se producen multitud de desplazamientos con orígenes y destinos similares realizados en los mismos días y horas.

El operativo se desarrollará en dos fases: la primera coincide con el fin de semana desde las tres de hoy hasta las 24:00 horas del domingo 1 de abril, mientras que la segunda fase, la más importante por el número de desplazamientos de vehículos, comenzará el miércoles 4 de abril y finalizará a las 24:00 horas del lunes 9 de abril.
En el dispositivo de la DGT participarán más de 600 funcionarios y personal técnico especializado, alrededor de 10.000 agentes de la Agrupación de Tráfico de la Guardia Civil y más de 13.000 empleados de las empresas de conservación y personal de los servicios de emergencia.

Para mejorar la fluidez de las carreteras se instalarán carriles reversibles y adicionales con conos en los momentos de mayor afluencia circulatoria en determinadas vías y se paralizarán las obras. 

Fuente: Qué.es

 

miércoles, 21 de marzo de 2012

Calendario exámenes provisionales 3ºA Grado Turismo Urjc Fuenlabrada III

Debido a los cambios realizados hoy en clase de FRANCÉS III, os dejo modificado el calendario provisional de exámenes de 3ºA Grado en Turismo, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Campus de Fuenlabrada.



* Para descargar el documento en pdf, tenéis que clicar en el enlace que os he puesto arriba. Después, clicad en la opción del medio (color verde). En el siguiente paso aparece una ventana emergente que dice "Su RapidPro está inactivo". Hacéis clic en DESCARGA GRATUITA. En la siguiente ventana, GUARDAR COMO y ACEPTAR.

Kiribati, el país que podría desaparecer por el cambio climático

A continuación os dejamos una noticia sobre el cambio climático, en nuestro sector un factor a tener en cuenta, dado que si desaparecen ciudades turísticas desaparece el turismo de esa zona.

Mucho se ha hablado de los efectos del calentamiento global, sin embargo ya hay un país que está siendo testigo de ello y se trata de Kiribati.

Esta pequeña nación enclavada en el Océano Pacífico, al noreste de Australia, es conocida por ser la primera de todo el mundo en recibir el Año Nuevo.

Compuesta por 33 atolones y una isla volcánica, Kiribati cuenta con cerca de 100 mil habitantes que viven con altos niveles de pobreza y ahora, el riesgo de tener que abandonar su país debido a los efectos del cambio climático.

Esto, porque el mar está tragando poco a poco la tierra firme que compone a la isla, por lo que algunos de los habitantes han tenido que mudarse a las partes más altas del país y de hecho, cerca de 100 mil ciudadanos ya viven como refugiados climáticos.

Sin embargo, el gobierno de Kiribati, presidido por Anote Tong, ya comenzó a tomar algunas medidas al respecto, siendo la más notable la compra de cerca de 20 kilómetros cuadrados de tierra al país vecino Fiji, iniciativa que podría tener un costo cercano a los $10 millones.

A pesar de ser un gasto bastante para una economía endeble como la de Kiribati, es quizá la opción más viable, ya que la otra medida era construir una especie de estructura que pudiera albergar a la población, algo que podría resultar  mucho más costoso.

De  lograrse la compra de territorio de Fiji, el presidente de Kiribati ha declarado que también sería necesario crear un plan para generar empleos para que los ciudadanos migrantes no sean vistos como refugiados.
Además de los políticos, los mismos habitantes de Kiribati han comenzado a tomar acciones y un ejemplo es la activista Claire Anterea que ha participado en foros de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático y donde da a conocer los efectos de esta problemática y cómo pueden apreciarse en su país.

Fuente: Univisión

martes, 20 de marzo de 2012

Calendario exámenes provisionales 3ºA Grado Turismo Urjc Fuenlabrada II

Debido a los cambios que ha habido en el calendario provisional de exámenes de 3ºA Grado en Turismo, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Campus de Fuenlabrada, vuelvo a poner al alcance de todos vosotros el calendario provisional actualizado. Sigue siendo provisional, pero muy representativo de las fechas que dentro de poco serán definitivas.

Os recuerdo que sí tenéis un calendario provisional de vuestra clase, podéis mandármelo por correo belen.turestick@gmail.com y lo subiré para que lo puedan tener el resto de compañeros.

Un saludo, 

Belén Turestick.

* Para descargar el documento en pdf, tenéis que clicar en el enlace que os he puesto arriba. Después, clicad en la opción del medio (color verde). En el siguiente paso aparece una ventana emergente que dice "Su RapidPro está inactivo". Hacéis clic en DESCARGA GRATUITA. En la siguiente ventana, GUARDAR COMO y ACEPTAR.

Certificados ECTS Jornada "Idiomas Sin Barreras" II

Hoy se entregaban los certificados de la Jornada "Idiomas sin Barreras" en el Aulario II aula 215 de 12:00 a 13:00 horas. Los que no habéis podido venir, como favor, los entregaremos el viernes 23 de marzo, en el Aulario II aula 205 a las 12:00 horas.

Un saludo,

Belén Turestick.

viernes, 16 de marzo de 2012

Fallas 2012

En Valencia están en fallas. Fiestas de interés turístico reconocidas a nivel mundial y que atrae gran número de visitantes a nuestro país. Os recomiendo que naveguéis por la página oficial de las fallas ya que es muy interesante y recoge toda la información relacionada con esta Fiesta Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Humanidad.

Os dejo un artículo de hoy:

En este viernes 16 de marzo  y tras las mágicas palabras de Sandra Muñoz, Fallera Mayor de Valencia 2012 la pirotécnia Turís ha hecho vibrar la plaza del ayuntamiento a las 14.00 horas en punto.

En este soledo día la plaza del ayuntamiento se ha cubierto de una gran multitud de amantes de las fiestas josefinas que esperaban con gran ansiedad el grito de  "Senyor pirotécnic, pot començar la mascletà" de la Fallera Mayor de Valencia 2012, Sandra Muñoz, para que diese comienzo esta espectacular mascletà, cuyo final  ha contado con una  multitudinaria ovación.

La Pirotécnia Turís a pesar de que no es de tradición familiar como es habitual en este oficio está a la altura de las grandes empresas pirotécnicas. Desde 2006 este entramado artístico lleva cosechando un gran número de premios y participaciones tanto en todas las regiones españolas como en el extranjero. 

La pirotécnia ha utilizado para este día 175 kilos de pólvora en una mascletà de corte tradicional con elementos digitales. El principio se ha caracterizado por un sistema piro-digital, en dos aéreas. Además ha contado con ocho partes terrestres y un bombardeo final. Se han empleado volcanes de serpentinas, zumbadores, silbatos y truenos de aviso, tanto en las partes aéreas como acompañando a la mascletà. Cabe destacar el terremoto y el final plagado de ritmo y potencia que esta pirotécnica nos ha preparado en este día.

La Alcaldesa de Valencia, Rita Barberá  arropada con la capa que le ha regalado la Tuna de la Facultad de Derecho ha presidido junto a las Falleras Mayores de Valencia y sus Cortes de Honor y el concejal de Fiestas y Cultura Popular, Francisco Lledó, el balcón del Ayuntamiento.

Como invitados de honor en este día se ha contado con la presencia de la Tuna de la Facultad de Derecho, el ex futbolista Amedeo Carboni y las reinas de les fogueres de Sant Joan, Raquel Sánchez y María Sala e invitados del mundo de la política pero también del mundo empresarial y del mundo fallero como las Falleras Mayores de Valencia, Lola Flor Bustos de 2000, Noelia Soria del 2004 y Marta Querol  del 1988.

Así como invitados del grupo socialista municipal encabezado por la Vicesecretaria General, Elena Valenciano, la senadora Carmen Alborch, la diputada Carmen Montón, Inmaculada Rodríguez Piñeiro y Leyre Pajín, esta última por la circunscripción de Alicante, junto a ellas estaban, además del Portavoz Municipal Joan Calabuig, y otros concejales de su grupo, el Secretario General del PSPV PSOE, Jorge Alarte, y el ahora diputado y exconcejal del Ayuntamiento de Valencia, José Luis Ábalos.

Además de la diputada Belén Juste, la senadora por Extremadura, María Agustina Rodríguez, y el diputado de UPyD por Valencia, Toni Cantó. Sin salirnos del mundo de la política hay que resaltar igualmente la presencia del alcalde de la ciudad colombiana de Medellín, Anibal Gaviria, y la alcaldesa de Turís, Pilar Lozano.

El mundo empresarial ha tenido sus principales representantes en Vicente Boluda, Presidente de la Asociación Valenciana de Empresarios, y Salvador Navarro, Presidente de la Confederación Empresarial Valenciana.

Un magnífico día  de mascletà, preludio de esta gran semana fallera.

Fuente: Fallas

Certificados ECTS Jornada "Idiomas Sin Barreras"

Ya están listos los certificados de asistencia a la Jornada "Idiomas Sin Barreras".

Los certificados los entregaremos el martes 20 de marzo de 12:00 a 13:00 horas en el aula 215 del Aulario II, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Campus de Fuenlabrada.


¡Os esperamos!


Feliz Puente,

Belén Turestick.

jueves, 15 de marzo de 2012

Ranking de mercados emisores: los 23 países que más turistas envían a España

Reino Unido, Alemania y Francia lideraron un año más el ranking de llegadas de turistas extranjeros a España. Pero es necesario observar uno a uno el total de 23 países que aparecen citados en la encuesta Frontur 2011, pues se detectan interesantes tendencias.
España recibió en 2011 casi 57 millones de turistas internacionales, lo que supone un crecimiento del 7,6% respecto al año anterior, según la encuesta de Movimientos Turísticos en Fronteras (Frontur) elaborada por el Instituto de Estudios Turísticos (IET) del Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Turismo.

Tal como puede apreciarse en la tabla, los aumentos más importantes de 2011, por encima de dos dígitos, se registraron en Finlandia (+14%); Holanda (+21,9%); Rusia (+41,8%); Suecia (+15,3%); Suiza (+18,7%); Brasil (+49,2%); Canadá (20,5%); Chile (111%); Venezuela (106%) y México (25%).

Los crecimientos de dos dígitos protagonizados por varios mercados emisores europeos podrían ser debidos a motivos extraordinarios, por ejemplo la Primavera árabe.

También encontramos un grupo de países sudamericanos cuyo aumento podría atribuirse parcialmente a un evento especial: el encuentro mundial de la juventud con el Papa, que tuvo lugar el pasado verano en Madrid.
La tabla muestra asimismo los aumentos destacados de mercados emergentes como Rusia y Brasil, que en 2011 contabilizaron 858.000 y 360.000 turistas hacia España respectivamente. En la tabla de Frontur no aparece China, aunque se estima que España recibe cerca de 100.000 turistas chinos.

Otro mercado emisor a destacar es EEUU, que registró un aumento moderado, del 1,2%. Pero hay que tener en cuenta que la llegada de turistas estadounidenses a España viene registrando un crecimiento continuo desde el año 2006. De esta manera, se han superado ya las cifras previas al 11-S de 2001.

Por otro lado, la llegada de turistas japoneses a España creció un 44% en 2010, sin embargo en 2011 apenas se registró un aumento del 0,4%. Esta variación interanual tan abrupta está relacionada con el terremoto y tsunami de marzo del año pasado, que durante meses afectó tanto al turismo emisor como al receptivo de Japón.

Más paquete turístico

La llegada de turistas extranjeros a España en 2011 se ha visto condicionada por varios factores, entre ellos la Primavera árabe. Las revueltas en Egipto y Túnez en el primer semestre del año fueron fatales sobre todo para el turismo de turoperación.

En este sentido, los datos de Frontur son elocuentes: el número de turistas que viajó a España con un paquete turístico subió un 12% el año pasado, hasta los 17 millones de clientes. Ver también Paquete turístico: del ostracismo a la resurrección.

También aumentaron en 2011 los viajeros sin paquete turístico, casi un 6%, llegando hasta los 39 millones.
En cualquier caso, la reprogramación de vuelos chárter y contratación de plazas hoteleras que los turoperadores europeos tuvieron que llevar a cabo en 2011, como consecuencia de la primavera árabe, favoreció sobre todo a los archipiélagos, tradicionales destinos refugio.

Así, Canarias –que compite en el mercado de invierno y en el de verano- recibió casi 10,2 millones de turistas (+18,3%), mientras que Baleares -cuyos problemas de estacionalidad no se resuelven- recibió otros 10 millones (+9,8%).

No obstante, el gobierno canario defiende que hubo otro factor que animó la llegada de turistas extranjeros a las islas: las bonificaciones a las tasas aéreas y que permitieron abrir 70 nuevas rutas hacia las Canarias, según expuso el Ejecutivo de las islas. De ahí que el sector turístico canario y la comunidad autónoma reclamen a Aena Aeropuertos y al Gobierno central que se renueven dichas bonificaciones en 2012.

En cualquier caso, aunque la llegada de turistas extranjeros subió un 7,6% en 2011, el gasto medio de los visitantes apenas creció un 0,2% a lo largo del año pasado, según constató la encuesta Egatur.

Este reportaje complejo ha sido publicado en la revista Hosteltur de marzo y puede descargarse también en pdf como Ránking 2011 de mercados emisores de turistas y previsiones 2012.

lunes, 12 de marzo de 2012

Metro Arts and Architecture

Subways need not be boring or dreary! On the contrary, many operators of metros, subways or underground railways want to attract passengers with good station design. This often means extra effort and cost for the metro operators, but it seems to pay off when a metro is more than just a means of transport but something the residents can be proud of.

See below which subway system is a Unesco World Heritage site, which subway lines double as the world's longest art galleries, or in which networks you can find stunning baroque-style underground palaces, museums, aquariums, comical statues, grand architecture from art-deco to modernist to futuristic... or just passenger-friendly and beautiful underground stations.


Do you like to spend your waiting time standing in a smelly narrow box with tons of advertising posters on grimy tiled walls? Most subway systems tend to be filthy and rather dull from an aesthetic point of view. But there are cities that explicitly foster arts and/or good architecture in subways. The photos in the list below are examples from those cities. The list includes:
  • Metro systems consistently designed to have user-friendly and good looking architecture, consequently with most stations looking similar (examples: Bilbao, Washington).
  • Stations of standardized architecture but with distinct interior designs of good quality (examples: Munich, Prague).
  • Lines with unique and interesting stations by different architects (examples: London Jubilee Line extension, Tokyo Oedo Line).
  • The most spectacular metros in former socialist countries, originally designed as 'palaces for the people', using valuable materials (examples: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Tashkent).
  • Metros with noteworthy collections of public art in the stations (examples: Brussels, Montreal, Stockholm).

Works of art or sophisticated architecture can be delightful, inspiring and thought-provoking for daily commuters as well as an attraction for visitors. Distinctive colour schemes and works of art help passengers for orientation, especially, but not only, in countries with a high level of illiteracy. Furthermore, there is evidence that vandalism diminishes in appealing stations because works of art and good designs are widely respected.

The star rating in this list takes into account the appearance of the best stations of the metro system, the overall quality, and the effort of its operator to provide beautiful and passenger-friendly stations. The asterisks can also be interpreted in a way some travel guide books use them:

Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Interesting
Rating: 2 stars – worth a detour!  Worth a detour
Rating: 3 stars – worth a journey!  Worth a journey

A word about the photos: Each city is represented by one to three images. They are showing examples of good station design, possibly the best stations in that city. If there's more than one photo, they are ordered chronologically and meant as a humble attempt to show the diversity of styles found. The photos have been picked to show excellence, so they do not necessarily indicate the average appearance of a metro system.

So here's a selection of about fifty remarkable metro and light rail systems, which is less than a third of all existing systems. More information can be obtained by following the external links provided in each city section below.

*Almaty, **Athens, *Barcelona, **Berlin, **Bilbao, **Brussels, *Budapest, *Frankfurt, **Dubai, *Genoa, *Hamburg, *Hanover, *Hong Kong, **Kaohsiung, **Kazan, *Kharkov, **Kiev, **Lille, **Lisbon, **London, *Los Angeles, *Lyon, *Madrid, *Minsk, **Montreal, ***Moscow, **Munich, *Naples, *Newcastle, *New York, **Oporto, ***Paris, *Perugia, *Portland, **Prague, *Pyongyang, *Rhine-Ruhr, *Rio de Janeiro, *Rotterdam, ***Saint Petersburg, **Santiago de Chile, *Sao Paulo, *Shanghai, *Singapore, ***Stockholm, **Tashkent, **Tehran, *Tokyo, *Toronto, **Toulouse, *Valencia, *Vancouver, **Vienna, **Washington.

A few more beautiful stations can be found on the One-Hit Wonders page which lists cities that have one or only a few of them.

Do you know of other cities which should be added or want to argue about the rating? Please go to the Metro Bits Forum. Last update to this page: 1 Dec 2011 (Almaty added).




Rating: 1 star (bronze)  Almaty

After 23 years of construction, the metro in the largest city of Kazakhstan opened and turned out to be of good aesthetic quality. Apparently in the tradition of the gorgeous Soviet metro systems, many stations have walls and floors of polished natural stone.

Photo [almatymetro.kz]: Concourse of Zhibek Zholy station (opened in 2011), marble floor ornamented like an Oriental rug.

Rating: 2 stars – worth a detour!  Athens

There are works of art or interesting archeological exhibits in several of the metro stations. Some of the newer stations have even been turned into downright museums [tourtripgreece.gr], [ametro.gr].

Photo [untergrundbahnen.de]: The large upper concourse hall of Syntagma station (opened in the year 2000) with its murals and lots of archaeological displays.
Photo: Replica of Parthenon friezes in the entrance hall of Akropoli station, which has been opened in 2000.
Photo [untergrundbahnen.de]: Ethniki Amyna station (line L3), opened in the year 2000, with the art installation Underground Park by Kostas Tsoklis.

Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Barcelona

The new lines L9 and L10 boast some interesting stations. Throughout the network, there are more occasional noteworthy stations like La Pau on Line 2.

Photo [DavoR, urbanrail.net]: Fondo station from 2010 on Line 9.

  More Barcelona photos...

Rating: 2 stars – worth a detour!  Berlin

The Swedish architect Alfred Grenander has designed more than seventy underground and elevated station buildings in Berlin. His style evolved from Decorative to Modernist between 1902 and 1930 [untergrundbahn.de], [berliner-untergrundbahn.de].

Photo: Refurbished entrance building of Wittenbergplatz station, built in 1913 by Alfred Grenander.
The co-financing of the U-Bahn line to Dahlem (called U3 today) by the posh district of Wilmersdorf facilitated a prestigious architecture in some stations.

Photo [Daniel Erler, absence-of-fear.de]: Heidelberger Platz station from 1913 by Wilhelm Leitgebel.
Most of the newer stations in Berlin are by Rainer G. Rümmler. Designs range from 1960s Minimalist style and colourful 1970s Pop Art design to Postmodernism.

Photo [u-bahnbilder.de]: Postmodernist-style Rathaus Spandau station from 1984 by Rainer G. Rümmler.

  More Berlin photos...

Rating: 2 stars – worth a detour!  Bilbao

Most new stations have been designed by Sir Norman Foster in 1995. The underground stations have striking roofed glass entrances. They are nicknamed 'fosteritos' after the architect and shelter escalators or stairways [arcspace.com], [metrobilbao.net], [urbanrail.fotopic.net]. The corporate logo as well as the Rotis typeface, which is used for all signs and paperwork, are by Otl Aicher, 1989 [metrobilbao.net].

Photo: A fosterito at Abando station.
Foster about his spacious concrete vaults: "A tunnel dug by man through earth and rock is a very special place. Its shape is a reaction to the forces of nature and the texture of its construction bears the seal of man. This must be respected, not covered up to make the place look like any other building. One must be able to feel being underground, and make it a good, special experience" (quoted from Metro Bilbao's Touristic Guide Map).

Photo: Barakaldo station built in 2002.

  More Bilbao photos...

Rating: 2 stars – worth a detour!  Brussels

The city encourages art in all metro stations [bsubway], [stib.irisnet.be].

Photo [C.A.I.D.]: Art installation with flying figures by Paul van Hoeydonck in Comte de Flandre station.
Photo [stib.irisnet.be]: "De Odyssee" sculpture by Martin Guyaux in Kruidtuin station.

  More Brussels photos...

Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Budapest

Hungary's capital boasts the first subway on the European continent. Line 1 (also known as 'Földalatti' or the Millennium Underground) was built in 1896 and added to Budapest's UNESCO World Heritage entry in 2002 [unesco.org]. Old stations have been beautifully restored and some of the modern stations on the other lines are also worth a look.

Photo [natureblink.com]: Hösök Tere station, built in 1896.

Rating: 2 stars – worth a detour!  Dubai

The elevated and at-grade Dubai Metro stations combine both heritage and modern designs. They have been modelled on the shape of seashell, inspired from the diving and pearl-fishing heritage of the UAE, while the interior design depicts the four elements of nature – water, air, earth and fire. [FlashyDubai.com]

Photo [momentaryawe.com, flickr.com]: Mall of the Emirates station.
Conceptual design of some stations includes traditional architectural ingredients used in antique Arab buildings such as wind towers, oriels, alleyways or internal arches.

Photo [Imre Solt, imresolt.com]: Al Jafiliya station.
Photo [Nepenthes, wikipedia.org]: Khalid Bin Al Waleed transfer station with its blue interior and jellyfish-shaped chandeliers.

Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Frankfurt

A weird subway entrance, looking like a train bursting through the sidewalk from below, is located in Frankfurt. Architect Zbiginiew Peter Pininski reported he felt inspired by surrealist artist René Magritte when creating it [neuer-weg.com]. Some other stations have interesting designs as well [vgf-ffm.de (PDF)].

Photo: Bockenheimer Warte station entrance from 1986.

  More Frankfurt photos...

Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Genoa

The elevated and underground stations of this small Italian metro system have been designed by the world-famous, Genoa-born architect Renzo Piano in 1983 [materia.it].

Photo: Brin station, which was opened in 1990.

  More Genoa photos...

Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Hamburg

After decades of ignoring design aspects and thoughtlessly polluting station interiors with giant advertising billboards, there's evidence that metro operator HHA is gradually rediscovering the value of its architectural heritage and developing fresh ideas.

Photo: Klosterstern station from 1929 on line U1, accurately restored in 1986 back to its original style.
Some historic stations have been preserved, and a few featureless stations have recently been transformed into spaces with interesting design and less advertising [100-jahre-hochbahn.de].

Photo: St. Pauli station from 1912. Since 1999, a deconstructivist glass roof contrasts with the historic sandstone entrance and shelters it from weather influences. The historic design at platform level has not been preserved, however.

  More Hamburg photos...

Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Hanover

Metro tram operator Uestra has invited world-famous designers and architects to enhance the looks of the system: the 'Busstops' art project of 1992 resulted in nine remarkable bus and tram stops at street level [uestra.de (PDF)]. Jasper Morrison has designed new trains in 1997, and Uestra's headquarters is a twisted cuboid by Frank O. Gehry.

Photo: Kröpcke station from 1975, once dreary, was completely refurbished in 2000 with designs by Massimo Iosa Ghini.

  More Hanover photos...

Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Hong Kong

Metro art is not too obvious in Hong Kong, but MTR's Art in Stations initiative brings works of art into the stations since 1998. There's an Open Gallery project on the Island Line and in many of Hong Kong's metro stations, live performances and art exhibitions take place [mtr.com.hk].

Photo: Upper platform level of Tsing Yi station with the huge yet inconspicious 'Birds of a Feather' installation by Neil Dawson.

  More Hong Kong photos...

Rating: 2 stars – worth a detour!  Kaohsiung

The second largest city in Taiwan got a modern MRT system in 2008. There's some interesting architecture found in the stations and station entrances.

Photo [Hiroshiken, flickr.com]: Entrance of Central Park station on the Red Line by Richard Rogers, 2008.
Photo [Hiroshiken, flickr.com]: One of four symmetrically arranged entrance structures at Formosa Boulevard station in Kaohsiung.
Metro operator KRTC is also taking public art in metro stations seriously [krtco.com.tw]. Kaohsiung International Airport station bears a glass artwork by artist Lutz Haufschild.

Photo [Hiroshiken, flickr.com]: Formosa Boulevard station with its huge Dome of Light by artist Narcissus Quagliata.

Rating: 2 stars (silver)  Kazan

The metro in Kazan was the first one newly built in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. So far, it has a handful of stations only, but all of them are spectacular. Extensions are on the way.

Photo [Parovoza; skyscrapercity.com]: Kremlyovskaya station from 2005.
Photo [skyscrapercity.com]: Prospekt Pobedy ('Victory Avenue') station from 2008.

Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Kharkov

The metro in Ukraine's second largest city was inaugurated in 1975 and consists of about 30 stations, many of them with interesting architecture and lighting and built with materials like marble and granite.

Photo [Alexei Bobko, urbanrail.fotopic.net]: Sovetskoj Armii station from 1978.

Rating: 2 stars – worth a detour!  Kiev

The capital of the Ukraine boasts a spectacular metro with three lines and stations similar to other cities in the former Soviet Union [metro.kiev.ua], [urbanrail.fotopic.net].

Photo [Daniel Erler, absence-of-fear.de]: Platform level of Zoloti Vorota (Golden Gate) station.
Kiev's stations are diverse in design. Apart from those in traditional soviet-style magnificence there are a couple of rather futuristic ones.

Photo [metropoliten.kiev.ua]: Platform level of Pecherskaya station.

Rating: 2 stars – worth a detour!  Lille

Since 1983 this city in Northern France has its VAL metro which is the world's most extensive driverless metro system. Many of the elevated stations are remarkable buildings.

Photo: Porte de Valenciennes station.
All metro stations in Lille are designed distinctly and come in a wide variety of architectural shapes. Most of the stations are underground. Many works of art can be found in Lille's VAL system, including sculptures and murals.

Photo: Platform level of Gare Lille Europe station with huge murals and a reflecting pool.
Building materials include different kinds of natural stone, stainless steel, wood, bricks or tiles. In one station (Montebello), live fish in aquariums at platform level provide an interesting distraction for waiting passengers.

Photo: Platform level of Montebello station with aquariums on the walls and wooden parquet flooring.

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Rating: 2 stars – worth a detour!  Lisbon

Works of contemporary art have been included in all metro stations [metrolisboa.pt 1]. Often are Portuguese tiles involved in some way [metrolisboa.pt 2].

Photo [David Pirman, nycsubway.org]: Platform level of Olaias station, which has been designed by the architect Tomás Taveira and a group of artists.
Some stations in Lisbon are dedicated to themes. Parque station symbolizes the achievements of the Portuguese discoverers [inscrire.com].

Photo [unknown origin]: Parque station from 1994 on the Blue Line.
Cabo Ruivo station in Lisbon looks like a space station with its skeleton-like arches. The wall decoration, in contrast, resembles caveman paintings.

Photo [unknown origin]: The walls above the platform of Cabo Ruivo station on the Red Line.

Rating: 2 stars – worth a detour!  London

London's Underground ('tube') was not only the world's first metro but also the first to have a corporate design, including the Johnston typeface (Edward Johnston 1916), the roundel logo (Frank Pick 1918), and the diagrammatic map (Henry C. Beck 1933). This groundbreaking concept is still in use today almost unmodified [ltmuseum.co.uk] and has influenced many other metros.

Photo: Notting Hill Gate station on the Circle Line, dating back to 1868.
There are some examples of interesting station architecture in London outside the city centre. Charles Holden is responsible for the design of fifty underground stations as well as London Transport's headquarters at 55 Broadway [tube.tfl.gov.uk]. For the Piccadilly Line stretch to Cockfosters, Holden developed a modernist approach in the 1930's. The original art deco furnishing of that time is surviving in some of the stations.

Photo: Cylindrical entrance building of Southgate station, built in 1933.
There are works of art in some of London's tube stations [tube.tfl.gov.uk]. The Jubilee Line Extension's spacious stations built in 1999 have been distinctly designed by a couple of famous architects, including Foster & Partners, Ian Ritchie and Michael Hopkins [tube.tfl.gov.uk], [lrb.co.uk], [trainweb.org], [wilson].

Photo: The daylit intermediate concourse of Southwark station (1999) by McCormac Jamieson Prichard architects.

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Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Los Angeles

The city allocated 0.5% of subway construction costs to the creation of original art works. More than 250 artists have contributed. There are works of art in all stations of the Red and Purple Lines as well as many other stations [metro.net], [mta.net], [usc.edu].

Photo [Eric Haas, nycsubway.org]: Hollywood/Highland station by Dworsky Associates architects and artist Sheila Klein.
Hollywood/Vine station on the Red Line features Hollywood's golden history with original theater projectors from the 1930s presented like sculptures. Film reels cover the vaulted ceiling all over.

Photo: Hollywood/Vine station from 1999 by artist Gilbert Lujan and architect Adolfo Miralles.

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Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Lyon

The metro of France's second largest conurbation has some interesting stations. Older ones (the metro opened in 1978) are more uniform but on the extension of line B and on the new line D, attention was given to more interesting design and stations have been planned by different architects.

Photo [wikimedia.org]: Valmy station from 1997 on the fully automated line D with a platform illuminated from below.

Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Madrid

Of approximately 300 km of metro lines in Spain's capital, more than 100 km have been built in just a few years around the turn of the millennium. Many of the newer stations and some of the older ones have interesting designs or architecture.

Photo [wikimedia.org]: Entrance building of Lago station of 1961.
Photo [unknown origin, skyscrapercity.com]: Nuevos Ministerios station in Madrid, inaugurated in 2002.

Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Minsk

Like other metro systems in the former Soviet Union, the stations have been built using exquisite materials and a few are decorated with socialist-style reliefs.

Photo [Alexei Bobko, urbanrail.fotopic.net]: Traktorny Zavod station.
Several of the stations in Minsk seem to have a certain 'light-weight' feel that makes one forget that they are underground.

Photo [Alexei Bobko, urbanrail.fotopic.net]: Molodezhnaya station.

Rating: 2 stars – worth a detour!  Montreal

More than fifty stations are decorated with over hundred works of public art, such as sculptures, stained glass, and murals by noted artists from Québec. The city encourages this since 1967, one year after the opening of the system [stm.info], [metrodemontreal.com].

Photo: Huge sculptures by Germain Bergeron on the concourse level of Monk station on the Green Line. Monk station was opened in 1978.
Some of Montreal's stations seem to be works of modern art themselves, and many reflect the zeitgeist of the decades they were built in.

Photo: Platform level of La Salle station (1978) on the Green Line.
Entrance buildings are often as well designed as the underground parts of the stations [metrodemontreal.com].

Photo: Concourse of Namur from 1984 station on the Orange Line.

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Rating: 3 stars – worth a journey!  Moscow

The metro opened in 1935. Many entrance buildings are just as architecturally spectacular as the stations below. Some stations are very deep and have been planned to serve as bomb shelters.

Photo [metro.ru]: Entrance building of Arbatskaya station on the first metro stretch from 1935.
Moscow's metro stations are a heritage of the socialist regime, originally intended to be 'palaces for the people'. With their marble-clad walls, chandelier lighting, and other precious interior, many indeed resemble palaces or cathedrals [metro.ru], [metrowalks.ru], [beeflowers].

Photo [cla.purdue.edu]: Central part of the platform of Komsomolskaya station built in 1952 on the circle line.
Many sculptures, reliefs and murals are found in the stations [metrosoyuza.net]. Besides Moscow, some other cities of the former Soviet Union have metro stations of similar grandeur. However, the ones in Moscow are the most numerous and the most spectacular. Fortunately, even the new stations opened in the 21st century are of good architectural quality.

Photo: The platform of Kropotkinskaya station built in 1935.

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Rating: 2 stars – worth a detour!  Munich

This metro system has been opened in 1972 and has spacious and clean stations. The earlier ones are rather minimalistic in design while the later ones got more interesting architectural features and some works of art [muenchnerubahn.de], [oliverbarchewitz.de].

Photo: Dülferstraße station from 1993 by Peter Lanz and Jürgen Rauch.
Photo: Westfriedhof station from 1998 with its simple concrete walls and its exceptional lighting concept by Ingo Maurer.

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Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Naples

Line M1 has been turned into "Il Metro dell'Arte" as six stations have been upgraded with a lot of artworks [danpiz.net]. Museo station accommodates an archaeological exhibit of many objects found during metro construction [umuc.edu].

Photo [metro.na.it]: Museo station, opened in 2001.
There are more interesting stations to follow when line M1 will be extended to finally become a circle line [contexttravel.com], [floornature.com].

Photo: Vanvitelli station, opened in 1993.

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Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Newcastle

The Tyne and Wear Metro has a very consistently designed guiding system and many works of art in the stations [nexus.org.uk], [newcastle.gov.uk].

Photo [rwa.org.uk]: Interactive sculpture 'Pulse' of the year 2000 by Andrew Stonyer in the atrium of Four Lane Ends station: approaching trains cause the neon light to pulse.

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Rating: 1 star – interesting!  New York

Since the subway system was inaugurated in 1904 by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) it has some interesting station design, above ground as well as below.

Photo: Reproduction of a historic stairway entrance kiosk at Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall station. It now houses an elevator to the station concourse.
NYC's subway became a little neglected in the following decades and earned a reputation of crime and grime. But besides significantly improving all stations, trains, and the safety since the 1980's, MTA started to thoroughly refurbish 15 historic stations to their original appearance, e.g. 33rd Street. Ceramic wall decors and mosaic signs are present in most underground stations and come in a wide variety [Stookey, see Reference].

Photo: Ceramic station name mosaic at the refurbished 33rd Street station.
MTA's 'Arts for Transit' program, founded in 1985, hosts more than 150 modern works of site-specific public art in stations [tfaoi.com], [nycsubway.org], [mta.info], [steelcase.com (PDF)].

Photo: Some of many humourous bronze sculptures, this is 'Life Underground' by Tom Otterness [tomostudio.com] in 14th Street station installed in 2004.

Rating: 2 stars – worth a detour!  Oporto

This city in northern Portugal got a light rail system in 2002. At street level, tracks are often embedded in grass. 15 of the 78 stations are underground [mporto.no.sapo.pt].

Photo [Nuno Fonseca, fotopic.net]: Entrance of Pólo Universitário station (2004).
Underground station architecture, surface-station furniture, signage and typography are quite consistent in their cool minimalistic elegance. Predominant materials are concrete, glass, and steel. Architect of all stations is Eduardo Souto de Moura, a former student of Alvaro Siza.

Photo [Paulo, skyscrapercity.com]: Casa da Musica station.

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Rating: 3 stars – worth a journey!  Paris

The distinctive, ornate, Art Nouveau metro entrances designed by Hector Guimard are a famous synonym for Paris's metro. Some are lost but 88 of them still exist [parisinconnu.com]. RATP has given reproductions to the subways in Chicago, Lisbon, Mexico City and the MoMA in New York, and an original entrance to Montreal [metrodemontreal.com].

Photo [Daniel Alhadeff]: The entrance at Porte Dauphine station, opened in 1900, is one of the larger ones.
The elegant metro stations in Paris are mostly column-free vaults with white bevelled tiles that look similar throughout. The system was inaugurated in 1900. Everything has been refurbished for its 100th anniversary.

Photo [Mike Nguyen]: Cité station on line 4.
An enjoyable architecture has also been implemented in Paris's newest RER stations as well as in the stations of the new driverless metro line 14 (Météor).

Photo: Magenta RER station with its interesting lighting.

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Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Perugia

This Italian people mover is called Minimetro and has seven stations. The elegant station buildings have been designed by the world famous French architect Jean Nouvel [minimetrospa.it], [flickr.com].

Photo [Alessio Monini, urbanrail.net]: Entrance structure at Cupa station of 2008, the only underground station in the system.

Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Portland

MAX light rail in Portland, Oregon, USA, consists of three lines running on streets or on their own right of way. The operators have integrated one or more works of art in almost every station to promote transit usage and community pride [trimet.org].

Photo [trimet.org]: Illuminated metal trees designed by Portland artist Brian Borrello generate their own electricity from solar panels at Interstate/Rose Quarter station (opened 2004) on the Yellow Line.

Rating: 2 stars – worth a detour!  Prague

Some of the stations seem to be a homage to Victor Vasarely or kinetic artists of the 1970s. There are thousandfold repetitions of glass or aluminium elements with all stations looking different.

Photo: Jinonice station, built in 1988 on line B. Walls are covered with tube-shaped glass tiles.
On line A, which was opened in 1978, station walls are covered with aluminium tiles which come in three versions (convex, concave or flat) and in different shades of colour. The designers thus managed to create a stunning, science-fiction-like appearance.

Photo: Flora station built in 1980 on line A.

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Rating: 1 star (bronze)  Pyongyang

The capital of North Korea has a socialist-style metro with murals and a grand architecture in a few stations [pyongyang-metro.com], [biglobe.ne.jp]. However, only two or three stations are open to tourists.

Photo [Wooolf, flickr.com]: Platform level of Puhung station.

Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Rhine-Ruhr

The unique suspended monorail in the city of Wuppertal runs above the Wupper river and was opened in 1901. Some historic stations have been carefully restored and contrast in a nice way with rebuilt, architecturally interesting stations from the 1990's.

Photo: Landgericht station from 1903.
Rhine-Ruhr area is an agglomeration of about 30 cities in western Germany with some 20 metro-tram lines and 9 S-Bahn lines [jochen-schoenfisch.de].

Photo: The combined metro-tram and bus station Neue Mitte, built in 1996 in the city of Oberhausen, was obviously influenced by deconstructivist architecture.
There are at least a few remarkable stations in each of the cities of Bochum, Bonn, Cologne, Dortmund, Duesseldorf, Duisburg, Essen, Mulheim, and Wuppertal.

Photo: Lohring metro tram station from 2006 in the city of Bochum with a platform made of frosted glass, illuminated from below.

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Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Rio de Janeiro

Only few stations in Rio are spectacular, but all are spacious and have little advertising. Many have marble walls and some are architecturally interesting. The metro was inaugurated in 1979.

Photo: Cardeal Arcoverde station in Copacabana, built in 2002.

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Rating: 1 star (bronze)  Rotterdam

This metro was opened in 1968 and has some stations which are as futuristic as the city itself. Some stations contain works of art.

Photo [Denis Kabanov, urbanrail.net]: Entrance building of Blaak station (lines A, B, C).
Other examples of interesting stations are Stadhuis (water flowing along vertical glass panels), Oostplein (glass windows in the floor) and some stations on line D between Marconiplein and Tussenwater [xs4all.nl/~kazil].

Photo: Wilhelminaplein station, built in 1997.

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Rating: 3 stars – worth a journey!  Saint Petersburg

Outstanding, palace-like stations are found here, similar to those in Moscow [metrowalks.ru], [metrosoyuza.net]. Some of the older metro entrances are elaborate round buildings.

Photo [spb.metro.ru]: Entrance building of Ploshchad Vosstaniya station from 1955.
Most stations in Saint Petersburg are of excellent architectural quality. Dazzling, themed metro stations are on the first metro stretch between Avtovo and Ploshchad Vosstaniya, which opened in 1955.

Photo: Platform of Avtovo station with 30 marble columns and 16 glass columns.
The metro is the world's deepest with an average station being 60 meters below ground. Some stations double as bomb shelters.

Photo [metrowalks.ru]: Platform level of Krestovskiy Ostrov station from 1999.

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Rating: 2 stars – worth a detour!  Santiago

Chile's capital has some metro stations with spectacular yet diverse modern architecture.

Photo [railway-technology.com]: Mirador station built in 1997.
There are also lots of works of art in Santiago's metro, like giant murals and sculptures, especially on line 5 [metrosantiago.cl].

Photo [skyscrapercity.com]: Baquedano station holds the 15 m wide sculpture "El Puente" from 1999 by Osvaldo Peña.

Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Sao Paulo

A diversity of geometrical forms were chosen for the underground stations [metro.sp.gov.br]. There's a collection of contemporary sculptures, installations and large murals in 30 of the 52 stations.

Photo [metro.sp.gov.br]: The mezzanine level of Brás station boasts 25 curved steel and polyurethane plates (2.2 m x 1 m each) which form the art installation 'Kaleidoscope' from 1999 by Amélia Toledo.

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Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Shanghai

China's President Hu has declared that "Shanghai's Metro system in 2010 will become the biggest moving exhibition in the world" [beijing2008.cn].

Photo: The Bund Sightseeing Tunnel provides a spectacular ride under the river. Here's the view out of the front of one of the automated cabins.

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Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Singapore

The MRT has very clean stations, mostly with simple, modern designs. Newer stations have interesting architecture and works of art.

Photo [Calvin Teo, wikipedia.org]: Exterior of Expo station, opened in 2002, on the East-West Line. The station has been designed by Foster and Partners in collaboration with Arup.
Many stations are intricately landscaped to reflect Singapore's reputation as a Garden City. Some underground stations are decorated with flowering orchids, tropical palms, or shrubs. City Hall and Raffles Place stations are good examples. On the North-East Line, which was inaugurated in 2003, all stations have individual architecture, and works of art have been integrated in every station [app-stg.lta.gov.sg].

Photo [deliarts.net]: Ceramic murals and floor mosaics in the concourse level of Dhoby Ghaut station.

Rating: 3 stars – worth a journey!  Stockholm

Stockholm's tunnelbana is referred to as the world's longest art gallery because works of art have been integrated in almost every station since the 1950s. SL spends 10 million SEK per year in safeguarding and developing artwork.

Photo: Entrance of Odenplan station from 1952.
Works of art can be found in 90 of the 100 stations. 140 artists have contributed so far.

Photo [from SL's free metro art booklet, see Reference]: Platform of T-Centralen station on the Blue Line, designed by Per Olof Ultvedt in 1975.
Many stations in Stockholm, especially on the Blue Line, have been left as rock caverns, which gives them an outstanding, unique atmosphere.

Photo: Rinkeby station, built in 1975 on the Blue Line with gold mosaics, paintings, and sculptures.

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Rating: 2 stars – worth a detour!  Tashkent

Tashkent's metro, built in 1977, allegedly as one of the most beautiful in the former Soviet Union, consists of three lines. Leading architects and artists from Uzbekistan took part in creating unique stations, some of them decorated in Islamic designs.

Photo [ilkhom.ferghana.ru]: Ceiling of Navoiy station from 1984.
Enduring materials have been used for Tashkent's station interiors, like engraved metal, glass, granite, marble, or carved alabaster. Each station's design is distinct and devoted to a certain theme.

Photo [crafts.freenet.uz]: Mustaqilik Maidoni station from 1977.

Rating: 2 stars – worth a detour!  Tehran

The clean metro system in the capital of Iran has many stations with an interesting architecture or design.

Photo [u-bahn-blog.de]: Entrance of Imam Khomeini station, opened in 2000.
Works of art have been integrated in many stations [tehranmetro.com], [iranchamber.com] as well as some stunning architectural features.

Photo [tehranmetro.com]: Platform level of Mirdamad station from 2002.
Photo [Hossein Mosavi Faraz, Fars News Agency]: Entrance structure of Vali-E Asr station from 2010.

Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Tokyo

All stations on Tokyo's Oedo line (opened in 2000) have been created by different well reputed architects, selected through a design competition [g-mark.org], [makoto-architect.com], [jrtr.net (PDF)]. The organic designs on platform and street levels of Iidabashi station are the world's first examples of computer-generated "evolutionary architecture", as architect Makoto Watanabe describes it in his book (see Reference).

Photo [gandamu]: Entrance of Iidabashi station.

Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Toronto

Most stations are looking more or less alike, except for the colour schemes of the wall tiles. But TTC's Art in Architecture Program has integrated a considerable collection of public art into the stations [transit.toronto.on.ca].

Photo [Craig James White, flickr.com]: Dupont station from 1978 on the Yonge-University-Spadina Line.
Especially the new Sheppard Line has some interesting stations [city.toronto.on.ca]. Furthermore, the Arts on Track Project aims to revitalize a couple of older stations through donations [tcf.ca].

Photo [Craig James White, flickr.com]: One of the many optical illusions by Toronto artist Panya Clark Espinal at Bayview station from 2002 on the Sheppard Line [haha.nu].

Rating: 2 stars (silver)  Toulouse

All stations have works of arts, mostly on the concourse levels.

Photo: Mirail Université station of 1993 on line A with a tall tree-like sculpture and other works of art by Daniel Coulet.
Stations are spacious and of varied architecture.

Photo: Carmes station of 2007 on line B with a huge 'sky' by Jean-Paul Marcheschi. This piece of art is a staggering 14 x 35 m (46 x 115 ft) and curves along the ceiling and wall.

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Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Valencia

This metro in Spain has several very different stations with interesting architecture.

Photo [calatrava.com]: Alameda station, designed by the architect Santiago Calatrava.

Rating: 1 star – interesting!  Vancouver

Vancouver's LRT is called Skytrain as it runs elevated except for four underground stations in downtown. The Millennium Line extension built in 2002 includes a couple of interesting stations which incorporate organic designs, west-coast wood architecture and modern metal-and-glass designs.

Photo [archiseek.com]: Brentwood station, designed by Peter Busby and Associates architects.

Rating: 2 stars – worth a detour!  Vienna

The Art Nouveau Stadtbahn stations have been consistently planned by the renowned architect Otto Wagner and date back as far as 1898 when the city rail system was inaugurated [wiennet.at]. Most stations have been beautifully renovated and integrated into the metro system.

Photo [bigfoto.com]: Karlsplatz station pavilion built in 1898.
Some of Vienna's elegant modern metro stations are decorated with works of art.

Photo [hs-st-paul.ksn.at]: Volkstheater station with mosaic friezes by Anton Lehmden.

Rating: 2 stars – worth a detour!  Washington

The Metrorail system of the US capital has been designed by Harry Weese & Associates to be America's grandest subway and was inaugurated in 1976. The Commission of Fine Arts, which had to approve the station design, favoured the coffered vaults [chnm.gmu.edu], [railwayage.com].

Photo: Capitol South station, built in 1977.
Works of art can be found in many stations [wmata.com/about/]. All stations above ground in Washington, as well as the underground ones, have been constructed using the same selection of materials consistently throughout the system. A useful feature are the rows of lamps on all platform edges which start flashing when a train approaches.

Photo: Arlington Cemetery station from 1977.
Photos by M. Rohde except where indicated otherwise.

Reference

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Hackelsberger, Christoph: U-Bahn-Architektur in München. Prestel 1997.
Junction '96. Lisbon Worldwide Conference on Art and Public Transport (Proceedings). Metropolitano de Lisboa, E.P., 1996.
Powell, Kenneth: The Jubilee Line Extension. Laurence King 2000.
Railway Technical Web Pages: Station Design.
Rauch, Jürgen: The Architecture of Underground Railway Stations. Krämer 1996.
Stockholm SL: Art in the Stockholm Metro (PDF). 2010 (free booklet).
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Ström, Marianne: Metro-Art in the Metro-Polis. ACR Edition 1996.
USA Today 9/2/2004: 10 Great Places to Stop for Subway Art.
Watanabe, Makoto Sei: Induction Design. A Method for Evolutionary Design. Birkhäuser 2002. 


Fuente: metroart