Anyone who
wants to make a swimming pool out of an abandoned metro station
neglected for 75 years, has definitely got my attention. The ghosts of
the Parisian underground could soon be resurrected if city voters play
their cards right in the upcoming mayoral elections. Promising
candidate, Nathalie Koziuscot-Morizet,
who would become the first female to ever hold the post in the capital,
has released the first sketches of her plans to reclaim the city of
light’s abandoned stations.
Up on the candidate’s drawing board we
have several proposals to revive the stations from their solitude,
including my personal favourite, the swimming pool (just imagine doing
laps down an old subway track), a theatre (think of the acoustics), a
restaurant, an art gallery and a nightclub. Participating
architects Manal Rachdi and Nicolas Laisné are only getting started
however, and these are just a few examples from their vault of ideas
should Nathalie win the elections in March.
While some of the ghost stations were
closed down due to a lack of passenger use, others never even saw a
single traveler on their platforms after planning was scrapped and
access from the streets above was never even built.
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