It’s the entrance to Metro Hall, the PATH, and, soon, St. Andrew station at King and University (145 King St. West).
![A-frame roofs in glass and granite columns with triangular incisions at top stand before soaring skyscrapers](https://fawny.org/blogimages/KingandUniversityPostmodern-skyscrapers.jpg)
It’s just an entrance! And it is easily the best-detailed postmodern structure in the city. It’s so postmodern it’s Spy-checklist-compliant.
- Does the building have pilasters or pediments or the same colour scheme as the 1984 Summer Olympics?
- Is it a cube with a peaked roof?
- For a building, is it funny?
- Is it funny but not a Las Vegas Hotel or a fast-food stand in Los Angeles?
- Is it easy to like?
![Multiple nested peaked roofs; tall granite column with triangular incision and seam running down each side](https://fawny.org/blogimages/KingandUniversityPostmodern-three-quarter.jpg)
I noticed this vestibule only after it was suddenly surrounded by construction hoardings. This was to become the wheelchair-accessible entrance of the St. Andrew subway station. My heart sank, because the TTC is an organization that literally cannot match tiles on adjoining walls.
What a surprise: The new entrance has the same profile as the many other nested A-frames of the existing structure, but, in true postmodern form, it uses a different colour of granite to call attention to itself.
![Black granite structure on new entrance](https://fawny.org/blogimages/KingandUniversityPostmodern-blackgranite.jpg)
The only purpose for this structure is as an entrance to an underground complex. It is orders of magnitude better than it needs to be. It is amazeballs.