Hong Kong Mtr Colors

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. So MTR architects decided to capitalise on this distinct colouring. "The Airport Express, Kowloon and Hong Kong stations are all the same grey," Mead says.

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 (Tsuen Wan), green. 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.

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.

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.

Hello! Hong Kong Tours Colorful MTR stations From it's vibrant people, awe-mazing skyscrapers and even the public transportation, Hong Kong is a city full of colors. When you are in a Hello! Hong Kong tours, you will notice that each MTR station has different colors. Red for Central, Yellow for Tsim Sha Tsui, and the color goes on.

The MTR stations in Hong Kong are rather colourful environments. Enamel panelling on the platforms of the older underground stations use a variety of colours. This was a useful design decision for passengers in crowded trains to immediately recognise which station the train is at.

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.