| Description | A dem fine piece of engineering, wot! |
| Address | Westminster, London |
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| Price Range | A tube ticket! |
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| Each of the new stations of the Jubilee line extension must surely qualify as modern works of art in steel and glass. Their scale is huge in an otherwise human-sized city, dwarfing and humbling us flesh and blood travellers, reducing us to ants in a futurist landscape surely designed for the metal muscles of R. Daneel and his kin.
My favourite station on the line is Westminster. It is built on three levels plunging deep into the earth, yet the overwhelming impression is one of space. It isn’t light and airy, though – the lighting of the predominantly silver and grey walls is soft and uneven, creating the slight sense of unease of the best type of horror movie where the utterly normal can become terrifying. Overall, the station is reminiscent of a huge, 3D game of snakes and ladders. The massive escalators soar overhead… throw the dice, up or down? I choose down, down, down and down, follow the signs, flow with the crowds, until I reach the narrow, claustrophic platform where I wait in front of the glass doors for the slithering centipede that is the tube train to take me away. |
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