Paris’s recent glamorous underground station is a serious contender for London stations.
When rushing to catch a train or the Tube, there’s rarely enough time for the encompassing architecture.
But some stations just like the recent Villejuif-Gustave Roussy Station in Paris are stunning enough to catch the attention of even the busiest commuter.
The futuristic underground hub within the southern suburbs of Paris is an element of a £29,000,000,000 Grand Paris Express railway project that can add recent lines and stations across the French capital.
Designed by Dominique Perrault Architecture studio, the shining glass and steel station has been dubbed an ‘inverted skyscraper’ because of the deep underground shaft topped with a sharp roof.
The studio claimed the metro station is ‘amongst essentially the most aesthetically pleasing on the earth.’
Its creators wanted it to be nothing like the standard underground stations related to discomfort, coldness and damp, in response to the Wallpaper.
The multi-storey station structure resembles an ice queen’s lair from a fairytale, with mirrored chrome steel staircases zigzagging across.
The 2 gallery floors surrounding the escalator shaft boast shops and cafes designed to draw among the 100,000 passengers the station serves every day, architecture outlet Dezeen reports.
It reaches 164 feet underground, certainly one of the deepest transport projects in France and Europe.
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Only a circular metal and glass cap is visible from outside the station.
The studio’s founder, Dominique Perrault, said: ‘The sky of this inverted skyscraper is solely the bottom level of town.
‘Natural light pours all the way in which right down to the platforms situated some 50 metres below. The sky is above the railways.’
One in all London’s most pleasing stations 12 months after 12 months includes St Pancras International, which has served passengers for the reason that late nineteenth century.
While beauty is in the attention of the beholder, the station’s curved steel and glass ceiling above the platforms and its redbrick tower frontage are a powerful sight.
The station hasn’t at all times looked prefer it does today because it suffered a ‘decline’ in the primary half of the twentieth century before it was rescued by a revival campaign led by John Betjeman, Network Rail said.
A Eurostar high-speed rail connection saved the station from further decline because it underwent a protracted restoration that saw the installation of 18,000 self-cleaning glass panes and 300,000 Welsh slates and iron girders stripped and repainted.
The western wall was rebuilt with 16,000,000 bricks made to look an identical to the unique.
St Pancras made headlines last week when Eurostar cancelled all Friday trains after an unexploded World War Two bomb was found on railway tracks near Paris.
1000’s of passengers had their weekend plans upended when the services were halted until the ordnance was removed.
Elsewhere, London Bridge has been named the most effective stations in Europe.
Experts ranked it on the highest ten list for its passenger services, connections and accessibility, the one UK station to make the highest of the list.
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