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Posted by GP38 Chris on Tue May 18 10:24:14 2004, in response to Re: Platform extension tiles,
posted by oakapple on Tue May 18 09:59:28 2004.
There was also a lack of appreciation for what the original designers achieved, and even when stations started getting full makeovers in the 1980s, the original designs were in many cases ignored (e.g., Bowling Green, Wall Street). Interestingly, there are now plans at the Wall Street (4/5) station to reverse the 1980s rehab, and restore the original design.
That is really good news about Wall St! I never particularly cared for the blue brick that really did not go at all with the original station. To their credit, they must have realized by that point that there was some value to the old design as they did "attempt" to save the mosaics and other features of the old wall with that horrible clashing blue wall.
As for Bowling Green, most people do bring that one up as a "travesty". I however don't blame them that badly though. In Bowling Green's case, the entire structure of the station was altered. Originally, the station was an Island platform station, and the little shuttle platform. In the 70's, the one track wall (along with it's mosaics) was completely removed and dug out to create the wall platform side. The extra platform was badly needed, and they had to take the wall down. So in Bowling Green's case, the mosaics had to be destroyed on one side anyway (there are no original mosaics on the wall platform side under the orange tile because that is not an original platform).
You are absolutely correct though, the MTA finally discovered what Heins and Lafarge knew all along.
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