In honor of “nearly” reaching what it describes as the halfway point in constructing the new East End light-rail line, Metro is releasing this rendering showing what it’ll look like when riders reach the track’s end. It’s a view of the station at the Magnolia Park Transit Center on Harrisburg at 70th St., the line’s easternmost reach. For the most part, the basic structure of each station will be identical steel constructions with glass canopies — much as they are on the existing Main St. line.
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At Magnolia Park, artist Ryan Geiger will cover vertical surfaces with images of inner-city birds. He’ll have starlings up at the Lockwood/Eastwood Station:
Nineteen other Houston artists (plus 2 more from out of town) have each created designs for the others. (Metro has posted a few of them here.) But construction of the stations themselves is only 8 percent complete, Metro says. So far, work has begun only on the EaDo/Stadium, Lockwood/Eastwood, and Coffee Plant/Second Ward stations. The line isn’t scheduled to open until 2014.
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- East End Line coverage [Swamplot]
Renderings: Metro
I love these. Here’s the link to the art planned for the north rail: http://www.gometrorail.org/go/doc/2491/415951 …I love the butterflies planned on Boundary!
Beautiful!
I am truly impressed.
Whoever named that one EaDo/Stadium should be drawn and quartered, then run out of town on a RAIL!
It’s the East End, always has been.
There’s one Northline station that has photo/art using 18 different faces, 17 of which are Hispanic people. I like that they’re finally dropping the “politically correct” fairness idea.
This station and Boundary Street by Dixie Friend-Gay are two of the best designs, IMO. I live around the corner from the Moody Park station, and couldn’t be more disappointed with the planned art work. Mountains and rivers? It is also recycled from another project, I should be writing her rather than posting a rant here. See Ya.
Cavalcade Station = WTF?