Toledo Metro Station

The Toledo metro station is the crowning jewel of the “Art Stations” of the Naples Metro. The Art Stations project (Stazioni dell’Arte) entrusted the vision of the city’s public transit stations to contemporary artists and architects in order to bring art to people’s everyday lives. Each level of the station is designed around a different colour representing a different theme related to the city. The walls and floor of the atrium on the first level are black, recalling the asphalt of contemporary civilization. The remains of Aragonese walls are also integrated into the atrium, which is adorned with mosaics inspired by the history of Naples. As you descend down the escalator, the walls become ochre and yellow, alluding to the colours of Neapolitan tuff and the sun. Further down, on the deepest level, the colour scheme becomes blue and green like the sea. In the corridor leading to the quay floor, there is an 80-foot-long environmental installation with two LED light boxes that reproduce the image of a sea, rippled by the continuous movement of the waves. (Naples, Italy)