The account of rapid - transit began 150 class ago , with the opening of the Metropolitan Railway in London in 1863 . In the next one C and a half , dozens of designer and engineer have worked on hole-and-corner tunnel and station . Some areabandoned now , but others are as salutary as new . Here are some of the most marvelous belowground railroad line stations .
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Rådhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
Rådhuset ( Court House ) station was opened in 1975 as a part of the Stockholm rapid transit organisation , one of the best deterrent example of organic architecture . Pictured above .
( viaTobias Lindman / Flickr )
T-Centralen Station, Stockholm, Sweden
The only place where all three of Stockholm ’s metro argument meet has this really wonderful one platform station , opened in 1975 .
( viaPaolo Rosa / FlickrandErzsébet )
Solna Station, Stockholm, Sweden (1975)
( viaWikimedia Commons / Wargklo )
Stadium Station, Stockholm, Sweden (1973)
( viaSkye Christensen / FlickrandWikimedia Commons / Allgau )
Westfriedhof Station, Munich, Germany
This place was opened in 1998 , but the 11 heavy lamp ( with ruby-red , dreary , and icteric spark ) were establish three year subsequently .
( viaHannes Maurer 1–2 )
Marienplatz Station, Munich, Germany
Marienplatz Station is one of the most oftentimes used stations in Munich , and was opened as part of the new S - Bahn meshing for the 1972 Summer Olympics .
( viaJaw3,Flickr / MrOmegaandWikimedia Commons / FloSch )
St.-Quirin-Platz Station, Munich, Germany (1997)
( viaWikimedia Commons / Florian Schütz , Wikimedia Commons / FloSchandIan Fisher / Flickr )
Brudermühlstrasse Station, Munich, Germany (1989)
( viaJaw3 )
Olaias Station, Lisbon, Portugal
Olaias Station was designed by Tomás Taveira and opened shortly before the exposition 1998 . take the air through the place on360cities .
( viaIngolfBLN / Flickr )
Drassanes Station, Barcelona, Spain
This station was open in 1968 , but was completely renovated between 2007 and 2009 with GRC ( Glass Reinforced Concrete ) instrument panel and interesting details design by the Barcelona - based ON - A Architects .
( viabuildtonet )
Budapest Metro Line 3, constructed in the 1970s and 1980s
( viaHype and Hyper )
Avtovo Station, Saint Petersburg, Russia
This extremely ornate snowy marble station was opened in 1955 and designed by Y. A. Levinson .
( viaWikimedia Commons / Sbarichev , Wikimedia Commons / FlorsteinandAndrew L. Moore )
Elektrozavodskaya Station, Moscow, Russia
Elektrozavodskaya Station was named after an electric abstemious bulb factory nearby and opened in May 1944 during the WWII . It ’s notable for its ornamentation , designed by Vladimir Schuko , Vladimir Gelfreich and Igor Rozhin .
( viaWikimedia Commons / Eugeny1988 )
Komsomolskaya Station, Moscow, Russia
Opened in 1952 and designed by Alexey Shchusev and Viktor Kokorin , this place has some mosaics , crimson granite , marble and other esthetic medallion .
( via3 geezerhood in MoscowandWikimedia Commons / Lite )
Kiyevskaya Station – Koltsevaya Line Hall, Moscow, Russia
The richly decorated hall was open up in 1954 and has a quasi - baroque style with large mosaics by A.V. Myzin and gold - colored trim .
( viaWikimedia Commons / Antares 610 )
Slavyansky Bulvar Station, Moscow, Russia
The post , designed by S. Volovich and open in 2008 , has unripened Cuban marble on the rampart , and gray-haired granite with darker ( Gabbro granite ) marble edges .
( viaWikimedia Commons / VanHelsing.16,Jaime Silva / Flickrandsomebody_/Flickr )
Zoloti Vorota Station, Kiev, Ukraine
The Orthodox duomo - like Zoloti Vorota was opened on December 30 , 1989 as the part of the first stage of the Syretsko - Pecherska Line . design by Boris and his son Vadim Zhezherin , S.Adamenko , and M. Ralko .
( viaWikimedia Commons / AMY )
Puhŭng and Yonggwang Station, Pyongyang, North Korea
Puhŭng
Many foreign holidaymaker were allowed to trip only between Puhŭng Station and Yŏngwang Station ( both open in 1987 ) on the Chŏllima Line . The Pyongyang Metro is the deepest in the cosmos – the running runs 360 ft ( 110 m ) underground .
Yŏngwang
( viaWikimedia Commons / Gilad Rom , Wikimedia Commons / John Pavelka , Geolocation.ws / afchagen , Flickr / John Pavelka 1–2 )
Museum Subway Station, Toronto, Canada
This station was redesign by Diamond and Schmitt Architects in 2008 .
( viaarchitecture NOW )
O’Hare Station, Chicago, Illinois
This station , with its curving and luminous walls made of glass , is turn up at O’Hare International Airport . It was contrive by Murphy / Jahn and open up in 1984 .
( viaWikimedia Commons / Daniel SchwenandEden Politte / Flickr )
Arts et Métiers Station, Paris, France
The steampunkish underground place near the Musée des Arts et Métiers was unfold in 1904 , but was redesigned by the famous Belgian comics creative person François Schuiten in a style breathe in by the works of Jules Verne .
( viaPathien / Flickr , Steve Calcott / FlickrandRG1033 / Flickr )
Formosa Boulevard Station, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
This transfer station was built for the 2009 World Games , but opened in September 2008 . It has the large glass work in the world , design by Narcissus Quagliata , cover up an arena of 23,465 sq ft ( 2180 sq m ) with 4,500 glass venire .
( viaWikimedia Commons )
The stations of the Line A, Prague, Czech Republic
The colorful spread out Dalek skirts with hemisphere on the walls make these stations from the 1970s look really fantastic .
( viaFlickr / Brad Ackerman , Flickr / ian LFandKristin Esteves )
Bockenheimer Warte Station, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The building was finished in 1986 , but it was enlarge in 2001 under the leadership of Zbigniew Peter Pininski .
( viaWikimedia Commons / Jcornelius , Bobanac Andreas / fotocommunity , Christine Moje / fotocommunity , mibi55 / fotocommunityandJürg Stuker / Flickr )
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