Design

What Does a Subway Entrance Say About its City?

A photographic survey of the world's metro gateways.
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No two subway systems are identical, and neither are their station entrances.

Across the world, cities' underground entrances represent a local (or more often, regional) flavor. There are the sleek (see Bilbao and Helsinki), the subtle (Lisbon and Liverpool), the somber (we're looking at you, Washington, D.C.), and the kind of sad, like the ones in Nizhny Novogrod.