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Sepanta completes 13 Chinese metro stations

By 2020-12-23T07:00:00

Chetwoods_Chengdu metro_Jincheng Avenue Station (2)

Interiors inspired by Sichuan silk industry

Sepanta Design has completed the interior design of 13 stations on a 22km rail line in Chengdu.

Chengdu metro line 9 is the first unmanned subway line in western China and will be the world’s first fully automated line in a city area that operates with high-capacity advanced trains, said Reza Esmaeeli, Sepanta’s founder and ex-Zaha Hadid Architects associate who joined Chetwoods as design director at the start of 2020.

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