Beacon Hill is the one deep underground station on the intial portion of the Link Light rail to be completed at 160 feet beneath the hill the station is named for. The stop has two platforms each located a separate tubes for the two tunnels. Both platforms are similar with arched ceilings and walls. The track walls are dark and unlit while the platforms are a lighter silver color with benches beneath their own little squares. Canopies of glass blocks allow different shadows from the lights. In the ceiling is Space Forms by Dan Corson, abstract sculptures that look like their floating up above.
There is a single public connecting passageway between the two platforms and in here are the 4 elevators all in a row up to the surface. Along the opposite wall is Portlals also by Dan Corson. It has similar abstract images of what could be exotic forms of life. The elevators lead directly up to the surface and reach it inside a brick ventilation building that serves the tunnel. It is located at the SE corner of Beacon Avenue South and Lander Street. In the entrance plaza is Common Threads-Community Patterns by Carl Smool, textile patterns from the cultures and heritage of Beacon Hill residents along the walkways in the plaza. Part of this instalation is The Mexican Journey...A Beacon: Unidad, Resistencia, and Hop that covers the ventilation openings of the elevator landing. Along the sides of the building is also a row TVMs (with a glass canopy above them) and ORCA card targets since the entrance to the elevators is a fare paid zone.
All Photos taken on 11 October, 2011
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