MOSCOW | Metro

[coth]

1. It's just very good taste.
2. Moscow is indeed enough rich city and with high level of life.
3. It's not an Russian economy related thread. There is a such in DLM. Please read it, you will find answers for your question right there.

[kub86]

Oh god i'm in love with Moscow stations....Gimme a palace anyday! I'm so happy they're keeping with tradition (ornate detailing, long escalators) on the newer ones. Cheap, functional stations isn't Moscow at all. I visited their newest station (victory park? peabody? I forgot the name exactly) which was decked in colorful gleaming marble and that station was absolutely fantastic. New Moscow likes to show off. Work it!

[anm]

Originally Posted by Rebasepoiss

The stations are built just like during the old times, which means they should make the people think they live in a rich country. I'm not saying they're not beautiful because they are, but it doesn't look right...

Your logic is interesting... It does not seem right to you to build nice-looking stations... You suggest that Russians should build station of cheap shitty design. Do I understand you correctly?

IMO, when subway stations are built to last - at least something in the country is done right.

[Rebasepoiss]

Originally Posted by anm

Your logic is interesting... It does not seem right to you to build nice-looking stations... You suggest that Russians should build station of cheap shitty design. Do I understand you correctly?

IMO, when subway stations are built to last - at least something in the country is done right.

You didn't understand me correctly, but let's leave this topic clean of an arguement. You may talk to me in PM.

[Purple Dreams]

I think the Moscow metro is the best in the world. It's a beautiful and very functional. I also think it's good that the new stations are also beautiful.

After taking the metro for a few times, the following phrase got stuck in my head. I don't have a Cyrillic keyboard so I hope it's understandable: "astarojna dver zakrevaetsa, sledoushaya stansia".

[coth]

Trubnaya. entrance.
25th June by russos
http://russos.livejournal.com/362274.html






Kuntsevskaya.
27th June from official site
http://mosmetro.livejournal.com/21270.html














Few weeks ago construction of Maryina Roscha station was started. It's planned to open in 2009.

[Aokromes]

Strogino and Sretensky Bulvar near to finish, photos by Russos:

[Yappofloyd]

These stations are on Line 3 or 4??? When are they opening?

[coth]

3 and 10

[sarflonlad]

I love the Moscow metro... well all of Moscow! It's a fantastic city.

I like these new stations. However, one partly expects new stations to try something new. The design seems very much consistent with the classical Moscow station design (which is fantastic, don't get me wrong). I think the designers and architects could have been brave and tried something new, but they didn't. In this respect I'm disappointed.

Again nice beautiful stations - but it doesn't challenge what people know about the Moscow metro. When I next go back, I doubt I'll walk in to these stations and think "Wow", but more "oh, ok, that's nice".

[Alargule]

Once again amazing designs. Must be quite some experience visiting stations that haven't opened yet.

[coth]

More like people are working in metro. As of Russos - his shots were used once on official site, afair, and in official metro booklets, so you can figure out yourself that he has a pass to "for personal only" places.

[coth]

Several TV reports

NTV
1TV
Vesti
Vesti
TVC
5 TV

[iampuking]

Which station is this? As far as i'm aware there are only two new stations, this appears to be decorated differently.

It's strange that the esacalators are at an angle to the central hall, never seen that in Moscow before. But I agree with sarflonlad, it's more of the same.

[sturman]

It's a change between Turgenevskaya and Sretensky Bulvar.

[coth]

Originally Posted by iampuking

It's strange that the esacalators are at an angle to the central hall, never seen that in Moscow before. But I agree with sarflonlad, it's more of the same.

There are plenty of them. Most of interchanges and also several exits, like Rimskaya or Universitet. There are also many stations with 90 deg stairway exits, especially stations built in 1930's.

[coth]

Several new Russos' shots.
http://russos.livejournal.com/411372.html

Kuntsevskaya, line 3 (opening - 7th january 2008)




Strogino, line 3 (opening - 7th january 2008)

[wayhigh]

it looks so awesome awesome AWESOME

[iampuking]

Originally Posted by coth

There are plenty of them. Most of interchanges and also several exits, like Rimskaya or Universitet. There are also many stations with 90 deg stairway exits, especially stations built in 1930's.

I've seen stations with sets of stairs from the central hall to the bottom of the escalators, with the stairs going off in a different direction, but none where the escalators go right to the bottom of the central hall at an angle, perhaps I don't know enough.

[Herr Lind]

Sretensky Bulvar
http://russos.livejournal.com/411372.html