2024-12-22T06:38:45-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/141895196/cut-away-confusion-from-your-nyc-commute-with-these-beautiful-subway-maps Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-11-25T13:26:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/79/79h8oost1s6cmeij.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="http://archinect.com/candy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Candy Chan</a>, an architect living in New York City, has what she describes as a "love-hate relationship" with her subway system. Fascinated in particular by the mechanisms of the MTA's stations &ndash; their navigation and placemaking methods, their circulation patterns &ndash; Chan was surprised to learn that there are no comprehensive, 3D maps of the station interiors available to the public.</p><p>To anyone easily turned around by traveling underground, the experience of emerging from the station on the wrong side of the street is a familiar and frustrating one, and travel can be discombobulating from the get-go. 3D station maps are commonplace in Hong Kong, where Chan is from, then why not New York? So Chan set out to map the stations herself, as a labor of love.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/wb/wbisy5w21thsbd1s.jpg"></p><p>Her ensuing <a href="http://www.projectsubwaynyc.com/about/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Project Subway NYC"</a> is a blog and resource, chronicling Chan's studies of the subways and gorgeous diagrams of their interior structures. The Project began this past July, and Chan just released a new slew of station maps &ndash; pict...</p>