Washington Metropolitan Area Transit METRO

Designed by noted Chicago architect Harry Weese in the 1960s, the first leg of the Metro’s red line opened on March 27, 1976, following more than six years of construction. A 1966 tour of the world's mass transit systems convinced Weese that the stations in the system (which were designed as a whole) needed to be grand in scale and needed to invoke the monumental civic architecture of federal Washington. Read on >>