slowing down
This is a train station. In particular it is the train station inside the Frankfurt airport.
It is the place where you wait for your train, after you fly into Frankfurt. Usually I get there in the late morning. The blue sky above the glass roof is unusual, normally it is rainy there. Or maybe the glass is colored, I'm not sure.
Why do I call this "slowing down"? Well, the speed of the trains is somewhat slower than the airplane that you arrived on. Ok, some of those trains go 300 km/h, but not for very long.
Of course, a trans-atlantic trip basically consists of waiting. You wait for the transportation to the airport. At the airport you wait to get on the plane. In the plane, you wait for takeoff. After takeoff you wait for landing, while watching the ocean and the sky. After landing, you wait for immigration and customs. After that, you wait for the train. On the high speed train, you check out the landscape, and wait for arrival.
That is high speed transportation for you. Have to be patient.
But in any case, the architecture of this top level of the train station is pretty well done.
posted by Bernd at 10:49
1 Comments:
Hmm, it's not likely that the glass panels are colored. They would send a tint to the floor... and the people.
Maybe they have a little polarized outer layer, to permit the entrance of light but keeping the warm out/in. But that only makes the sky color a wee darker.
In any case, it looks beautiful. Except for the palm trees; I mean, WTF?
Fast travel takes indeed a lot of time. Imagine all the paper work you'll require if they ever get to develop a commercial form of teleportation!
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