There is also quality and durability in these finishes, which still do their job after 50 punishing years. The functional decor is given a slightly luxurious quality by a black rubber Pirelli floor, by vertical slivers of yellow and the use of a tropical hardwood, iroko, for handrails and seating. ![]() The building’s length is exploited, as on the exterior, this time to create halls that balance transition and repose, in which the sense of distance given by its deep perspective is offset by good proportions and a high ceiling – to put it less pretentiously, these are good spaces both for catching a bus and waiting for one. Every eighth recess in the coffered ceiling contains fluorescent tubes, which adds another beat of light and shade. The seeming monolith of the superstructure (actually made of multiple elements of precast concrete) levitates above a delicate and airy ground level in which play out subtle rhythms of repeating lines – glazing bars, pillars, tiling, benches, the concrete beams. Having made this grand gesture, the design devolves into unexpected shades of subtlety. The station’s minimalist interior, with iroko benches and black rubber Pirelli floor.
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