Stationshal Hoofdstation
The central hall of Groningen Central Station has an atmosphere of more than a century ago: the brickwork in weaves of red, yellow and black stones, a tall wrought-iron lantern and the texts above the passageways.
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In the rush of everyday life, we tend to run from place to place and forget to see beauty in things you "know anyway. Look up. The colourful floral motifs and architectural elements on the ceiling are made of papier-mâché, a technique not uncommon in the past because of its low cost and light weight. However, its application on such a large scale is unusual. In addition, the hall is a so-called 'salle des pas perdus', literally a 'hall in which footsteps are lost'. The Groningen artist F.H. Bach (then a lecturer at Minerva art academy) refers here not only to the acoustics, but also to the hall's function. A waiting room in which people walk around to kill time and more or less uselessly move their feet.