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Back in the spring, I spent a month in northern Europe and Scandinavia checking out the great cities of Copenhagen, Malmo, Gothenberg, and Hamburg. Each location has their unique characteristics, some of which I’ve already posted about (Reykjavik<\/a>, my first stop; Copenhagen<\/a>; and Malmo<\/a>). I was sidetracked with work on the upcoming issue (out tomorrow!) so the other cities have been ignored. Today I take a look at Hamburg’s subway stations.<\/p>\n

Hamburg, Germany has an extensive rapid transit system that employs a few services, mainly the S-Bahn<\/a> subway and a more local subway service called the U-Bahn<\/a>. Both services have multiple lines that travel underground through the heart of the city but mostly exists above ground outside of the dense core.<\/p>\n

The one thing that caught my attention was the design of the subway platforms (which shouldn’t surprise anyone since I helped create these little things<\/a>). The wall patterns in numerous stations are made with similar tiles as Toronto’s TTC subway stations. I was excited to discover these stations because (in some cases) they help me debunk the myth that subway stations designed with these materials look like washrooms. I see a shared approach in many of these platform designs to Toronto, yet the German designers have played around with patterns much more.<\/p>\n

The following 30 photos have a little commentary. You can see them on Flickr<\/a> too.<\/p>\n

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Klosterstern station is near the top of my list of favourite stations. The yellow-ish tiles are actually quite white. As you can see in the photo at the top of the post (also Klosterstern) the patterns are very striking when looking down the curving platform.<\/p>\n

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Hamburg’s stations do not have a uniform font like Toronto has, but the one used here at Altona (it looks very much like the font Futura) is the most widely used.<\/p>\n

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The Reeperbahn is Hamburg’s closest thing to a red light district. Its station is unique in that it starts with a red wall as its base colour at one end, and with the use of thin stripes, slowly blends into a blue wall.<\/p>\n

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Jungfernsteig was my favourite station design (I’m a sucker for big circles). It had a few lines passing through it — the theme also continued on those platforms.<\/p>\n

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Wartenau was very striking to enter. The long, multi-shaded, horizontal lines created an effect that the train was moving faster than its actual speed.<\/p>\n

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I loved the station Ritterstrasse simply because of its kitsch German iconography.<\/p>\n

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The stations Stadthausbrucke, Landungbrucken, and Lohmuhlenstrasse felt eerily similar to Toronto stations.<\/p>\n

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This is one of many platforms found under Hamburg’s central station Hauptbahnhof. Look at those tiles: they are the same patterns used at King and College stations here in Toronto.<\/p>\n

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The five stations shown above are examples of recent platform renovations. The font is use is Helvetica Bold. These were probably my least favourite designs, but worth documenting nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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