2013-04-10
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“Earl’s Court was an embarrassment”.
Google Street View screenshot from Maps on iPad, iOS 5. See also.
2012-11-24
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Manchester’s New Station, Piccadilly - a British Railways poster circa 1960, from a post at Quad Royal, Hit the North, centred on this argument:
“the point remains: should you happen to map the world by railway poster, the industrial heartlands of Britain are pretty much invisible”
2012-04-24
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Two more photographs of escalators (both by Harry Gruyaert) from the Magnum collection, as posted to Slate as part of their series on walking.
2012-03-20
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A timelapse of the construction of the roof of the new Kings Cross western concourse. I’d rather have embedded the longer BBC version, or their second video of the main railway shed roof renovations, or even the single shot version of the latter at Network Rail, but unfortunately they don’t seem to enable embedding.
If you’re interested in the new station: more words; more pictures; even more pictures. Why there are no water fountains. Previously: my review of new northern concourse of the Underground station.
2011-06-07
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An axonometric drawing of the new Tottenham Court Road ticket hall, complete with art by Daniel Buren, from the page for the project on Art on the Underground. (thanks, Chris.)
2011-02-17
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London Transport - Arsenal station design sketches, August 1930 (by Mikey):
A sketch from the offices London Transport Architects illustrating the proposed reconstruction of the facade of Arsenal station in 1933. This swept away the 1906 Leslie Green facade and delivered this uncompromising ‘moderne’ elevation that largely survives to this day. Given the huge LT roundel on the facade and the two cantilevered versions there’s no doubting it is a tube station!
See also: Holborn station reconstruction sketches, 1933 (by the same uploader).
2010-11-19
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Glide, by Grahame Taylor:
In all my slow-motion work so far, I’ve used a static camera to capture a high-speed event. But, I wondered, what would happen if the camera was the fast-moving object? Use a 210fps camera at 35mph, and on playback at 30fps it’ll seem to the observer that they’re moving at walking pace- but everything observed will be operating at 1/7th speed.
via Kevan Davis, via Chris Applegate.
