
81 — Otto Wagner — 3/5 — On the Stadtbahn
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The Utilitarian Station in Vienna
There are a bunch of them knocking around although mostly slightly altered i mean just to say that like the other basic type the sort of utilitarian station type is for the elevated stations. The top is articulated a bit like a kind of glazed attic with towers which look a bit like sort of pliny's villa kind of towers you know with ears and thingsYeah i'm thinking it's a variation on the classic high-level railway thing where you have to have a platform on either side and then a bridge that growsEither under it or over it pretty grand yeah it's quite grand so this stuff is all i think it's like white stucco or something like that I don't think these
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