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Architects: ALA Architects, Esa Piironen Architects
- Area: 15500 m²
- Year: 2017
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Photographs:Tuomas Uusheimo
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Manufacturers: Forssan Sisärakenne, Kone, Metek, Seroc
Text description provided by the architects. The first phase of the western extension of the Helsinki metropolitan area subway line, the West Metro, opened for traffic on November 18, 2017, connects Ruoholahti, Helsinki to Matinkylä, Espoo. The West Metro will service over 170,000 passengers per day. The objective that has been set for the architecture of the eight new stations along the first, and the five new stations along the second phase of the extension is to create distinctive, location-specific identities for them on both urban and interior scale. At the same time the metro will act as a link between the various urban centers of the City of Espoo and in a way create its new backbone.
