1973 – KTH gets a metro station

Platform of a metro station carved from rock. A large glass dodecahedron hangs from the ceiling, the walls are painted in blue and white, and a blue-and-white train passes on the left. — Tekniska högskolan metro station, located beneath Valhallavägen adjacent to KTH.

In 1973, a metro station opened under Valhallavägen to give students and staff at KTH direct and fast access to the campus. The station was designed by Michael Granit and Per Reimers, and the line was then the terminus of the northern branch of the red line.

The exit closest to KTH is next to Östra station, so a logical name for the metro station could have been Östra station. But when the metro was built here, the future of the Roslagsbanan was uncertain. Plans to extend the metro to Täby threatened the existence of the old railway. Instead, the station was named Tekniska högskolan, a name that feels just as obvious today.

The artistic design was by Lennart Mörk . It would be an underground tribute to technology and science with walls and ceilings that refer to Christopher Polhem, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler.