Tag: railway architecture
Lost Beauty #10: Hospital Case (Christ’s Hospital station, West Sussex, UK)
Glass Candy (Stratford DLR Station (High Level), London, UK)
The Accidental Railway Station (Ashford International, Kent, UK)
Not Just Any Old Iron (Great Malvern station, Worcestershire, UK)
Beautiful Nightmare (Santa Maria Novella station, Florence, Italy)
Modernism in Miniature (Durrington-on-Sea railway station, UK)
Snap! (Look-a-like Railway Stations)
Standing on the Platform and Looking Up at the Waves (Toledo metro station, Naples, Italy)
Lost Beauty #8: The Palace of the Railroads (Pennsylvania Station, New York (NY), USA)
Grand Design (Grand Canyon railroad depot, Grand Canyon (AZ), USA)
The Sky Full of Stars (Grand Central Terminal, New York (NY), USA)
Smooth Operator (Drassanes metro station, Barcelona, Spain)
A Near-Perfect Union (Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Los Angeles (CA), USA)
Loughton Proud (Loughton station, Loughton, London, UK)
Through a Glass, Divinely (stained glass at railway stations)
Concrete Cathedrals (Cockfosters and Uxbridge London Underground stations, London, UK)
When Two Tiles go to War (Bechmann’s Nord-Sud stations, Paris, France)
The Green Agenda (Leslie Green Underground stations, London, UK)
Close Encounters of the Forth Kind (Forth Bridge, Queensferry, UK)
Iron Flowers (Guimard’s Métro Entrances, Paris, France)
aside: The Most Beautiful Metro in the World? (Riyadh Metro, Saudi Arabia)
Rivers of Light (Southern Cross Station, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
Lost Beauty #4: The Railway Terminus, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Liner on the Line (Wimbledon “A” signal box, London, UK)
The Light Fantastic (Heron Quays station, Docklands Light Railway, London, UK)
