Posts Tagged ‘London Underground’

The Flickr Travelogues – architectural eye-candy from the Jubilee Line Extension (London) Pt1

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

One of my favourite architectural memories from my time living in London was stumbling across the architecture of the Jubilee Line Extension (JLE) of the London Underground system – there is nothing quite like having an architectural experience without any form of warning whatsoever. Visiting the well-photographed Barcelona Pavilion, for example, had no such sharp edge of unprepared wonder.

So, I offer you some great photography from stations along the JLE, from Westminster to Canada Water in this installment, with more to come later. I hope this doesn’t spoil anyone’s future ‘moments’, but suspect that everyone has seen images, if not having actually visited the stations, by now…

m-d

[slideshow=13]

Images (that aren’t squashed into this square slideshow format) are over the break… (more…)