Underground architecture: Obvodny Canal metro station
Greetings friends, today I propose to spend some money for a visit to a metro station. I've chosen the Obvodny Canal metro station for this little excursion. First I have to buy a metro ticket, which costs about $1. The lobby of this station is on the ground floor of a shopping centre, and it's not an architectural landmark. I go through the turnstile and down the escalator. The station is quite deep, at 61 metres. Finally I find myself down in the underground hall.
The architectural design of the station focuses on a time when industry and transport was booming. The arches of the underground hall are stylized as metal trusses - a feature of many 19th-century industrial buildings.
The walls of the station are decorated with a photographic panorama of 'Industrial Petersburg'. Glass-ceramic panels show what the banks of the Obvodny Canal looked like. The embankment of the left bank of the canal runs along one wall, and a panorama of the right bank of the canal runs along the opposite wall. It is a kind of monument to industrial Petersburg.
You can walk along the track walls for a long time, looking at the panoramas and trying to compare historical and contemporary views. Some of the buildings no longer exist, others have been changed beyond recognition. In some places, the authors of the panorama have put together elements of the urban landscape in such a way that even familiar places are hard to recognise. The panorama is not a photo chronicle in its pure form. The authors of this panel have combined sights, buildings and urban incidents from different years into a single work.
In some places you can see a geometric drawing in the form of a semi-circle with inscribed triangles. The casual viewer might think of it as a free-form geometric composition, but someone familiar with the groundscape of the area will immediately recognise the characteristic pattern of the spans of American bridges. An important function of the Bypass Canal was transportation. In the 18th century you would have seen numerous barges in the canal waters, but in the 19th century a significant amount of goods were transported by rail. American bridges were thrown over the Obvodny Canal in the 19th century to carry the railway to the nearby railway station.
I decided to add to the story of this metro station with a photo of the Obvodny Canal embankment, which I took on a rainy evening. This is how the area looks now: busy traffic, an old railway station, a beautifully lit church building, and red-brick industrial buildings somewhere in the back. Some of these buildings have managed to change their purpose. For example, the old railway station building now houses a large food mall, and beyond - where the access roads used to be - there is now intensive construction of residential buildings. But you can't see the new buildings from this angle, and only the clean, flat asphalt and bright street lights will prevent you from mistaking the century.
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| Location | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
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Beautiful station @tatdt 😎 what a joy to visit.
I love the exposed iron beams… great architectural feature.
Seeing long forgotten times on the sides is a big plus.
Have a lovely Friday! 👋🏻😊
This architectural solution seems quite original to me.
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Looks like something you would expect to see darth vader striding down! gorgeous architecture
That would be impressive:))) Thank you so much!
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It is fascinating the scale of architecture and decoration in metro stations not only in Russia but a lot of the former soviet states.
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YES!!!! :D only 1$ for a walk in the deep (just kidding)
Interesting industrial style station design, as well as all the explanation about what was and isn't there.
Cheers!!!
PS. The city with those reflections and that cleanliness is beautiful.
Thank you very much! I'm very pleased that you enjoyed this little stroll through the metro station!:)
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Some metro stations are really beautiful, an example being the one you presented. But everyone is such in a rush to not miss the subway on their way to work or other stuff to do that they don't focus much on the surroundings. And sometimes it's a great loss 😉
I find this station very beautiful indeed. Thank you very much!
A beautiful design. You have blown me away. Especially the details, the color and how well laid out the station is. Here in Venezuela it is very different. A big hug, great publication.
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One of the true delights of St. Petersburg! It is a deligtfully photographic city that does not deny you the ability to be timeless. I was fascinated by the structure and had a hard time figuring out i the art was yesteryear or today, until I read your words. That is why I think St.Petersburg is such an amazing city. Everything is done so well and with such purpose.
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