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Originally Posted by edluva
i can't hate nor love these stations. they're nice looking at quick glance, but the details glare through rather quickly. they incorporate hackneyed architectural fashion in a painfully modest way, and with little understanding. kind of like taiwanese train stations.
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I am not sure I exactly get what you wanted to say.
If by
hackneyed you mean that architects relied too much on once proven successful formula for design of downtown stations, and these stations look a bit like a parody of the old grand ones - I would agree with it. This does not make me dislike them, but I would prefer a fresher and more modern approach.
Trubnaja IMO is overloaded with decorations and the lamps to me look out place. Their shape does not agree with the rest of the design. I like the green marble though.
Sretenskij Bulvar gets a higher grade from me. I like the pannos. Without them the central hall would be sterile.
Strogino - I have no objections. One of the best vaulted stations in Moscow metro.
Kuntsevskaj - nothing to discuss really.
I hope that time will come for other materials than marble and granite and for new approaches to Moscow metro architechture, so that future stations would reflect exciting developments above ground.