October 26, 2007
Think of the Tube, and the first image that enters your mind is the red and blue circle and bar roundel. It’s used everywhere on the trains, the maps, the tickets, the walls… But that’s just the start of it. Dig around the Transport for London web site and you’ll come across its excellent Station Products Guide PDF, which specifies everything from the platform-end fences that stop you getting electrocuted, to the channels screwed onto the station ceilings to keep the cables out of the way.
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October 24, 2007
The Guardian has published a very long piece about the new St Pancras station. Too long for the web, really, and flowery enough to leave you wondering why it wasn’t cut down before being posted online.
Writer Jonathan Glancey is bowled over by it. And so he should be. I’ve been in there myself since the [...]
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