Fine design – Westminster tube station
A nice little video on The Times website takes us through Westminster tube station and explains some of the engineering wizardry that was needed to create the structure.
Okay, it’s a two minute video so it doesn’t go into nearly enough nerdy detail for me. If you want a more leisurely approach, there are some super pictures on the Metro-bits website.
And there is a marvellous article in the London Review of Books which analyses the architecture of each of the Jubilee Line stations – all built for the Jubilee line extension which was a Millennium project – as well as referring to the myth of Orpheus, Charon the ferryman of the dead, urban regeneration, and the classic Underground work of Pick and Holden (designer of marvellous suburban stations in fine modernist style).
Of course the best thing you can do is buy a ticket and get on the Jubilee line yourself… maybe that’s a project for me, next time I have a spare day to spend!
Picture credit: Michael Underhill on
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