RUSSIA | Urban Transport Compilation

[Falubaz]

Kazan - although very small metro - is probably the most beautiful metro worldwide! It's coz 100% of stations i've seen so far were just beautiful.

[iampuking]

Originally Posted by john2890

the russian metro systems in st petersburg and moscow are amazing, but i personally think they're a bit over the top. i mean, nothing is as beautiful as the gritty, dirty, toxic london underground!

toxic? dirty? What a load of bollocks.

Anyway, I love the old Moscow and Petersburg stations but I personally think the new ones look like tacky pastiches of the original stations. Firstly, they probably are made from plastic or fibreglass rather than the stone that the original stations were made of...

Contemporary designs would be far better.

[Falubaz]

Plastic? ahahhaahah no way! Don't be jealous!

[coth]

Originally Posted by iampuking

toxic? dirty? What a load of bollocks.

Anyway, I love the old Moscow and Petersburg stations but I personally think the new ones look like tacky pastiches of the original stations. Firstly, they probably are made from plastic or fibreglass rather than the stone that the original stations were made of...

Contemporary designs would be far better.

one or two new stations in spb were faced with plastic. but they are not showed in this thread.

as of moscow - all new (all actually) stations are faced with a pure stone - mainly marble and granite.

[iampuking]

Originally Posted by coth

one or two new stations in spb were faced with plastic. but they are not showed in this thread.

as of moscow - all new (all actually) stations are faced with a pure stone - mainly marble and granite.

Maybe its the finishing then, they look two shiney and shopping mall-like. Compare to the original stations which have a more matte finish which are more class-looking.

Originally Posted by Falubaz

Plastic? ahahhaahah no way! Don't be jealous!

Please grow up.

I appreciate good architecture when I see it. Most of the recent St Petersburg stations look tacky. If I were jealous then I wouldn't compliment the recent stations in Moscow, or the original stations in Moscow and St Petersburg.

[coth]

all stations were looked exactly the same when they were opened - clean and shining. varnish rubs off with time.

[iampuking]

Originally Posted by coth

all stations were looked exactly the same when they were opened - clean and shining. varnish rubs off with time.

Even the station posted at the top of the page?

Anyway, it's not just the shininess that looks bad, it's the general finishes.

The fake Roman details, the garish colours, the fake gold and the fibreglass ceiling which is incongruent with the rest of the pastiche station...

[JoKo65]

More pictures:


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[wayhigh]

very nice

[DiggerD21]

How big is the network? I like the front of the trains. About the stations:

[Rebasepoiss]

True... They should have done something else with this ceiling. At the moment, it looks out of place, compared to the rest of the interior:

[city_thing]

Originally Posted by iampuking

I appreciate good architecture when I see it. Most of the recent St Petersburg stations look tacky. If I were jealous then I wouldn't compliment the recent stations in Moscow, or the original stations in Moscow and St Petersburg.

I have to agree - these new stations are all very 'new money' style. Gaudish and tacky, trying to capture a sense of luxury.

[Kvetinka]

In 2007, I visited SPB, it is a beautiful city.. but when I tried to take a picture on one of the luxury-looking metro station, I was not allowed to. When I took out my camera, some woman (supervisor in metro, possibly) forbade me to take any pic. I was overwhelmed... You can take a pic in Hermitage but not in metro??

[coth]

it's not allowed in to take photos in spb metro, afaik. allowed in all other russian metros.

[Го́голь]

Good work St. Pete! You finished a complete new line since I left the city last summer, unbelievable (though you cheated a bit by adding only three stations to existing lines ). Can't wait to see Admiraliteyskaya open (2011 I heard?), that saves a lot of walking around in the city centre!

[Askario]

Originally Posted by DiggerD21

How big is the network?

Only 6 stations, but will be 7 soon.

Some missed stations:

Prospekt Pobedy (Victory Avenue)


Sukonnaya sloboda (Cloth Settlement)


Ametievo from outside

[JoKo65]

Памятный знак в честь основания Казанского метрополитена. Казань.

[naive.super]

[QUOTE=iampuking;34312336]Maybe its the finishing then, they look two shiney and shopping mall-like. Compare to the original stations which have a more matte finish which are more class-looking.


QUOTE]

Mate, some of the original stations are over 70 years old, of course they are not shiney anymore, in fact they look even worse in real life than on photos.
There are like 9 million people using Moscow underground daily, no wonder it it loooks worn down. When I saw the first photos in this thread from SPB, my first thought was "these stations are mega! but too shiney, there is no way that can stay like that, in a couple of years it will look completely different".

[naive.super]

Originally Posted by iampuking

Even the station posted at the top of the page?

Anyway, it's not just the shininess that looks bad, it's the general finishes.

The fake Roman details, the garish colours, the fake gold and the fibreglass ceiling which is incongruent with the rest of the pastiche station...

I have to agree with that. Many new stations try to imitate the older ones, but the quality of finishes and other elements has obviously dropped down.
Although some new stations are actually pretty good, but it would also be nice to see more modern architectural solutions, just for a change.
On the other hand, in 10 years these stations may not look so bad.

[JoKo65]

Just some photos.

Волковская:













Звенигородская:







Inside a train:


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