In July last year Tollpatchy featured the new U-Bahn station by Haid + Partner Architects that was being built in Nuremberg, Germany - See article.
The station opened in January 2012 and the interior did not disappoint.
In contrast to the exhibitionism of the bionic forms of the entrance pavilions, the interior is a study in subtlety. Ghostly images in the lightly ribbed concrete panels appear and then disappear as the carriage passes through the station.
The counterpoint to the restrained interior is the lift shaft which brings the above ground design language through the ground plane. Perhaps answering my concerns about how well the lift shaft fit with the scheme in the earlier article.
The skill with which the concrete work has been executed in this project is remarkable - the juxtaposition of the smooth dark grey pigmented entranceways with the ribbed white pigmented interior panels works perfectly. Haid + Partners have also managed to further compound a sense of place and history by the ghostly use of works by painters from the Munich school of art, after which the streets in the city quarter are named. Photos really cannot do this station justice.
All photos copyright of Caroline Hather.
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