As you travel across the Hong Kong MTR, you'll find stations of all colours. Red. Blue.
Pink. Yellow. Green.
Grey. Brown. Purple.
And rainbow. The reason? The South China Morning Post talked to the MTR Corporation's chief architect to find out. The main reason bright colours were adopted when the first line opened in the 1970s was to lighten up the subway system, according to Andrew Mead.
The vibrant hues of Hong Kong's MTR stations have their roots in an austere government. The story behind Hong Kong's colourful MTR stations South China Morning Post 4.26M subscribers Subscribe. Train service,coverage,MTR stations,Tourist,Train Frequency,Service Hours,First Trains,Last Trains,Customer service,Fares table, MTR Station Facilities,MTR Wi-Fi Services,MTR ATM Service,eInstant Bonus Terminals,Public Toilets in MTR stations,MTR Facilities For Passengers With Disabilities,Facilities for Visually Impaired Passengers,Facilities for Hearing Impaired Passengers,Facilities for.
Choi Hung, one of Hong Kong's brightest stations! Mong Kok is red, Admiralty is bright blue, and everyone recognises the rainbow-coloured walls of Choi Hung. Hong Kong is a city full of colours, and nowhere is more colourful than underground. But why does each MTR station have its own colour, and what do they mean?
The architects integrated the art in the station by bringing together color and functionality. Take, for example, artist Gaylord Chan's rocket art in the space between Hong Kong and Central stations. The work is about the movement of people, and people passing quickly, reflecting the transit area where the station is where the art is located.
MTR colour coding Hong Kong's railway system (MTR) currently has nine lines, each denoted with a colour. The original system only had three lines with three easy to distinguish colours: red. MTR chief architect Andrew Mead revealed that stations were color-coded in the 1970s in part because large swaths of the population weren't literate.
The different colors provided an easy way to identify stations. Important stations. Hong Kong's 99 metro stations are all identified by their own individual colour scheme.
The idea was originally meant to help illiterate travellers find their stops, according to Andrew Mead, the chief architect of the city's Mass Transit Railway system better known as the MTR. The colours of each station are derived from the surrounding environment, or take cues from the Chinese names of.