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>In DC, you’ve got these cavernous underground stations, a testament to brutalist architecture. In Chicago, you’ve got a wooden platform on some steel girders.
by lazyjones 7y ago
>In DC, you’ve got these cavernous underground stations, a testament to brutalist architecture. In Chicago, you’ve got a wooden platform on some steel girders.
Meanwhile, in Moscow... https://hypebeast.com/2015/10/moscow-metro-stations https://hypebeast.com/2015/10/moscow-metro-stations https://www.rbth.com/arts/2017/06/19/dont-miss-these-5-stations-on-the-moscow-metros-circle-ring_785407 https://www.rbth.com/arts/2017/06/19/dont-miss-these-5-stati...
- Symmetry 7y agoThose are very nicely gussied up but the spaces involved all seem relatively modest. So I'd guess that they cost less to build than the large US stations we're talking about. Those details cost money but I'd guess single digits millions at most, not the half billion a New York subway station can cost.