http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/04/BAGK19VTST.DTL
The San Francisco Chronicle’s Urban Design writer, John King, thinks very highly of the Glen Park BART:
“With a name like Brutalism, it’s no wonder this blunt strain of modernism never caught on with the public. Yet the movement produced such evocative works as this BART station, where the shadowy charge comes from the interplay of heavy forms, one pushing past the next. Tucked deep inside the earth, below a muscular, skylighted shell, trains pull in and out amid a brooding grandeur of rough concrete against polished stone, thick structural arches and sharp shafts of light. BART has 43 stations; this surely is the best.”
