Trainstation Delft prt11
This is how railway station Delft looks on the outside. Nothing special. The trains used to be on a brick stone viaduct. So you can imagine what a space was created by going underground.
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Trainstation Delft prt8
Upstairs is the station hall, with the entrances and shops etc. The walls and ceilings are not orthogonal, but curved and the ceramic pieces on the lower half of the walls refer to the famous Delft Blue pottery.
Trainstation Delft prt9
Trainstation Delft prt10
Groundlevel
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Getting up
Getting up.
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Trainstation Delft prt7
Getting in.
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Trainstation Delft prt6
Getting in and out.
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Trainstation Delft prt3
From the train platforms you get up one level, to a small square, from where you can choose: get a next train on an other platform; get out to the bike parking (prt5); or get to the next level and leave the station. When you look up, there is a white slat ceiling with, printed in black fragments, the city-map of the old situation of the area around the station. Whether you see it, depends on your point of view.
Trainstation Delft prt4
Trainstation Delft prt5
Trainstation Delft prt1
We entered Delft by train and stepped out, underground, into the in 2017 finished new Delft Central station. First thing I liked was the ceiling. They designed a connector to let the ceiling-slats rotate 90 degrees, from horizontal, above the walking passengers, where they reach the platform; to vertical, where the trains stop and speed up again. Horizontal-slow; vertical-fast. You can ‘feel the departing’… Small thing, but brilliant idea!
Trainstation Delft prt2
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Going Underground prt14
The last four shots were taken in the Metro stop in Amsterdam’s new Noord-zuid-lijn. A prestigious project, with a lot of delay, that costed us an awful lot of extra tax-money… We wanted to complete the total track and get out at every stop to do some shooting. But.. While taking some photo’s in the first Metro stop, a security guard tapped me on the shoulder and asked if I had permission to photograph down there… I hadn’t, so the fun was over. Insane! We took the escalator and left immediately.
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Going Underground prt13
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