It's Elfin's Tuesday Architectural Appreciation thread! This week- Under Ground.

Well I liked Agent-F’s suggestion the best, so I think that’s what we’ll go for this week. Should be quite challenging but that’s good cos it makes people think a bit more.

Some people might argue that it’s more about engineering, but as we all know, they’d be wrong and I’d be right, don’t we kiddies?!?

Plenty of underground stuff has good architecturalism in it. And the entrances and stuff can be pretty good so they’re allowed.

The World Famous Greenwich Foot Tunnel:

Russian tube station

Pic 3 gave me a sudden rush of vertigo. A bit like when you’re stood on a wobbly desk looking at something on the ceiling.

Tyne Tunnel Pedestrian and Cyclist Tunnel

Ballroom under a lake (hope underwater counts)

Underground…..overground……wombling freeeee………

(I assume their home is underground? Never really watched it.)

I’ll accept underwater too MW. 🙂 After all, many tunnels are under water as well as ground.

Canary Wharf Jubilee line station:

Manchester tunnels photo’s by Andrew Brooks. Brill! 😀

Manchester has a whole network of tunnels – old or disused sewers, old bomb shelters, foundations, cellars etc. You can go on organised and guided tours of them.

Edit: oh Binners you bastard – beat me to it by a few seconds!

.
.

.
.

Underground Church – Polish salt mine

Did you go to the Hidden manchester exhibition in Urbis crazy-legs? Amazing photos. They’re mahoosive. Here:

Elfin’s favourite:

A London Tube Station in That London’s famous London. (Canary Wharf)

.
.

Large Hardon Collider [sic]

Nit got any pictures if it at the moment or more to the point no technological facilities to post any up but the Royal mails underground rail network is a cracking example. Not architecturally stunning but workman like and practical.

Pics and write uo here.

Not beautiful and not a building but an incredible structure all the same. LHC Cern.

.
The project takes place in a former 1200 square meter anti-atomic shelter. An amazing location 30 meters down under the granite rocks of the Vita Berg Park in Stockholm. The client is an internet provider and the rock shelter hosts server halls and offices.

http://www.evolo.us/architecture/skyscraper-or-sustainable-underground-society/#

Olympic fjellhall, Gjøvik, Norway:

It is actually a cavern that’s bin carved inside a mountain. Proper cool. Largest unsupported roof in the World.

Ach, beaten to the Moscow metro stations. Still, plenty to choose from:

And here’s an underground spa in Ireland. Bit too much of a sensory deprivation tank for my tastes.

Napoli Catacombs..

Derinkuyu, in Turkey.

Stockholm Underground

Moscow Metro

The tunnel between 2 German bunkers on the Pomoranian defence line.

The Catacombs in Istanbul. When i was down there, there was a motorbike in the middle covered in disco glitterballs. Very odd

It’s only half underground, but this is the Temppeliaukion Kirkko in Finland:

Paris Catacombs

I guess this doesn’t count as the pitch is only below ground (street) level and not underground.

😉

Metro de Madrid, strange fact, while we drive on the right the metro circulates on the left hand track. Anyone know why?

Incredible 3d scans of the various structures under the ground in Nottingham

More info

The totally zany Williamson Tunnels [/url]in Liverpool – built for absolutely no apparent purpose, and only discovered recently

the ’61 Road’ – a secret tunnel and armoured (and armed) train carriage. Built for President FD Roosevelt it connected Grand Central Station two a dedicated platform and lift leading into the Waldorf Astoria.

Roosevelt’s car would drive straight onto the carriage and its purpose was to prevent the public from seeing that he was paralysed from the waist down.

Smallcleugh mine

Honister Slate mine official tour

Elfin, no matter what the under-ground structure is, it will always be more engineered than it is architectural.

maccruiskeen, some emotive images there.

Muppet Wrangler Thats the salt mines in Krakov Poland.
Been there 15 years ago everything in the Banqueting room including the floor and chandeliers
are in salt. Such an impressive place to see.
Even at the end of your tour you get catapulted to the surface in the miners Two tier lifts. Brilliant

My favourite station on the Brussels underground

James Turrell’s Roden Crater

You guys might be interested in becoming a member of this site.
28Dayslater.co.uk

‘Camp Century’ – a nuclear powered US base under the ice in Greenland. Taking the term ‘Cold War’ a little too literally

The SNOLAB neutrino detector

under Naples