I’m really liking these fantastic axonometric projections of New York Subway station complexes by architect Candy Chan. 

This type of view isn’t anything revolutionary or new – see this fabulous diagram of London’s Piccadilly Circus tube station from 1929, for example – but these are all executed very deftly. The cleverly exaggerated vertical scale does a good job of preventing upper platforms and mezzanine levels from obscuring important detail below them, while the street level is indicated only by thin dashed lines and street names.

More station diagrams can be seen on Candy’s project website, and there are posters for sale as well!

(And yes, I adore the fact that the Columbus Circle diagram is contained within a circle.)

Source: projectsubwaynyc.com website, via CityLab (a good read!)