Metro Rail Stations - Table of Contents

Metro Rail Stations:  Light Rail Rapid Transit  System
Delavan/Canisius College Station
(Originally named Delavan-College Station)
1853 Main St., at East Delavan Ave.

NFTA-Metro - Official Web site

Stations:    Allen/Medical Campus  ..... Summer/Best  ..... Utica  ..... Delavan/Canisius College  ..... Humboldt/Hospital  ..... Amherst Street  .....  LaSalle  ..... University


Art captions taken from the "Buffalo Art in Transit" brochure published by NFTA in 1979

Exterior


Architect: DiDonato Renaldo




Style:  Brutalism,  plus Neo-Expressionist elements:  diagonal lines, distinctive geometric forms, and unusually shaped row of windows









Sculpture by Sam Gilliam, Washington DC.  Appearing as a sun rising from an angled concrete mass, the huge medallion assaults the period architecture and surrounding landscape.  Aluminum paint on aluminum and steel.









Note south facade, at right, on East Delavan



East Delavan entrance


Interior


Ceramic tile mural by George Woodman, NYC and Boulder, CO.
Linear flowers cascade across the walls in six modular units. Using twelve colors with varying hues, the repeating form is given endless variation.



Detail - Ceramic tile mural by George Woodman, NYC and Boulder, CO.



Detail - Ceramic tile mural by George Woodman, NYC and Boulder, CO.



Detail - Ceramic tile mural by George Woodman, NYC and Boulder, CO.









Special thanks to NFTA Director of Public Affairs C. Douglas Hartmayer for his cooperation and to Thomas Mudra for his assistance in 2012

Photos and their arrangement © 2012 Chuck LaChiusa
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