Metro Station -- Gallery Place:
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- METGP_190101_10.JPG: A canopy is coming in 2018.
These escalators are exposed to harsh elements that they weren't designed for. That's why we're covering them with a glass canopy. It will provide shelter for the escalators -- and more importantly -- for you.
[Note that it's already 2019 but the sign is saying the canopy will be in place in 2018.]
- METGP_190306_12.JPG: A canopy is coming in 2018.
These escalators are exposed to harsh elements that they weren't designed for. That's why we're covering them with a glass canopy. It will provide shelter for the escalators -- and more importantly -- for you.
[This photo was taken in March 2019.]
- METGP_190306_15.JPG: A canopy is coming in 2019.
- Description of Subject Matter: Gallery Place-Chinatown
Yellow line South tunnel entrance wall.
Yellow Line, 1989
Constance Fleres
Painted metal, neon lights
20' l x 8' h
Gallery Place-Chinatown Yellow line South tunnel entrance wall.Connie is well known as the creator of 'Yellow Line', a public artwork located in the Washington, D.C. Metro system at the Gallery Place station.
This project was made possible in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and the Arts Consortium.
Constance Fleres is a contemporary artist whose multimedia works embrace a theme of movement and reflective light. She has taught in the Washington, D.C. area, as well as New Zealand, and has exhibited in galleries throughout the United States and overseas. Her works are in various public and private collections worldwide. She resides in Alexandria, Virginia.
The above was from https://www.wmata.com/initiatives/art-in-transit/ait-gallery-place.cfm
Gallery Place-Chinatown
North entrance passageway.
The Glory of Chinese Descendants, 2000
Foon Sham
Plexiglas, wood, aluminum, neon lights
30' l x 8.3' h
The Glory of Chinese Descendants - 2000
The wall sculpture serves as a gateway to historic Chinatown. The thoughtful use of materials evokes images of everyday objects found in traditional Chinese culture including, fans, chopsticks, rice paper and lanterns. The artist sought to pay homage to early Chinese descendants who settled in the Nation's Capital.
This project was made possible in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities.
Born in Macao, China in 1953, artist Foon Sham arrived in the United States in 1975. Over the years, he studied at several notable colleges, ultimately receiving a B.F.A from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California in 1978 and an M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia in 1981. A large portion of Mr. Sham's body of work consists of varying size sculptures which utilize a diverse array of hard woods, orchestrated in organic forms. The Glory of Chinese Descendants, commissioned for WMATA in 2000, deviates from the majority of his work in terms of materials used.
The above was from https://www.wmata.com/initiatives/art-in-transit/ait-gallery-place-the-glory-of-chinese-descendants.cfm
- Wikipedia Description: Gallery Place – Chinatown (WMATA station)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gallery Place–Chinatown is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., on the Green, Red and Yellow Lines. It is a transfer station between the Red Line on the upper level and the other two lines on the lower level.
Location:
Gallery Place–Chinatown is located in Northwest Washington, with entrances at 7th and F, 7th and H, and 9th and G Streets. The station's only street elevator is north of F Street on the west side of 7th Street.
The station, which is beneath the Verizon Center, serves that arena and the surrounding Chinatown and Penn Quarter neighborhoods in downtown Washington. The station is located very close to Metro Center, such that the lights of one are visible down the tunnel from the other.
Notable places nearby:
* Calvary Baptist Church
* Ford's Theater
* International Spy Museum
* J. Edgar Hoover Building (headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation)
* Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (main branch of the DC Public Library)
* National Building Museum
* National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial
* National Portrait Gallery
* Smithsonian American Art Museum
* Verizon Center (home of the Washington Wizards, Washington Capitals, Washington Mystics, and Georgetown Hoyas)
* Washington Convention Center
* Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
History:
Service began on December 15, 1976, as part of the original Red Line that ran from Farragut North to Rhode Island Avenue–Brentwood. The opening of the station was delayed by a court order over lack of handicapped access (it was originally supposed to open with the rest of the first stations on March 27, 1976). WMATA provided assurance that such access would be available by June 1, 1977.
Yellow Line service began on April 30, 1983, adding service to the Pentagon and National Airport. Green Line service began in 1991, adding service (at the time) to U Street/African-American Civil War Memorial/Cardozo and Anacostia.
Originally named "Gallery Place" after the nearby National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum, "Chinatown" was added to the station name in 1986 (although the station's signage was not replaced until 1990) and in 2000, a large Chinese-style fan, entitled The Glory of the Chinese Descendants, was installed over the 7th and H Street entrance.
This station is a testing ground for new features in Metro stations. Since 2004, the station has been the site of testing for new signage. As a result, there is far more signage in this station than most others, including lighted signs, as well as signage that isn't found anywhere else in the system. In 2007, red LEDs were tested for the platform edge lights on the upper level. Orange LEDs were tested at the platform edge on the lower level, before being replaced by red LEDs in 2008.
Station layout:
Like other downtown transfer stations, Gallery Place – Chinatown has a two-level configuration. However, unlike Metro Center and L'Enfant Plaza, where the platforms cross centrally, the Green and Yellow Line platforms are located near the east end of the station, resulting in an off-balance layout. This is a result of the fact that the Green and Yellow Lines run below 7th Street NW, while the Red Line must bend towards the southeast in order to reach Judiciary Square and Union Station.
Plans to add a pedestrian tunnel connecting Gallery Place–Chinatown with Metro Center have long been in the works. The "Gallery Place/Chinatown - Metro Center Pedestrian Passageway Tunnel Study" was completed in July 2005.
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