Designed by the artist Anish Kapoor, a new station in Naples, combines art and architecture, balanced and somewhat mysterious – a functional piece of sculpture. Officially, the title of Monte Sant'angelo -U train station, the striking new piece of infrastructure in the southern Italian city will be officially opened tomorrow (September 11, 2025) by Campania, Vinckenzo de Luca and President Umberto de Gregorio.
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The project is part of a broader urban and cultural regeneration scheme in the Traiano District of Naples. Not too far away, the architecture studio of Benedetta Tagliabue based in Barcelona has recently designed a spectacular wood and train station, Centro Direzionale di Napoli, which was opened in 2024.
It is part of a number of new stations for the Metropolitan Train Line, which were commissioned in 2004, with the Triptycher Art, Archaecture and Archaeology “as the motto and the works of Foster + Partners, Massimiliano Fuksas, Álvaro Siza, Dominique Perault and Karim Rashid, including the works of Massimiliano Fuksas in Order were given.
With Kapoors project, the design signals a similar desire for a harmonious symbiosis of architecture and art. While the project is of course a work building, it also confidently shows the artist's exploring, which have led to world -famous pieces, e.g. B. Cloud gate in Chicago.
The new station is dressed in weathering steel and has two input jewels in its appearance, a smooth and clean cut and the other swelling from the ground, which indicates an abstract “physical organism”.
Kapoor described three key elements as the starting point – “the mythological object, the body and the emptiness” – and brought the design to its place, in the city of Mount Vesuvus and Dantes mythical entry to the inferno, I found it important to try to do what it really means to go under the ground. “
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