Skarpnäck is a

Stockholm metro The Stockholm metro ( sv, Stockholms tunnelbana) is a rapid transit system in Stockholm, Sweden. The first line opened in 1950, and today the system has 100 stations in use, of which 47 are underground and 53 above ground. There are three colou ...

station located in the

Skarpnäcksfältet Skarpnäcksfältet ( en, The Skarpnäck Field) is a subdistrict of Skarpnäcks Gård in the Skarpnäck borough of Stockholm, Sweden. Skarpnäcksfältet was built in the 1980s, and has 8,734 inhabitants as of December 31, 2009. History Archaeo ...

subdistrict of

Skarpnäcks Gård 220px, Skarpnäcks gård Skarpnäcks gård is a district ( sv, stadsdel) in Skarpnäck in Stockholm Municipality, Sweden. Skarpnäcks Gård has 10,348 inhabitants as of December 31, 2007. The district was formed in 1963, but the name Skarpnäck ...

district,

Skarpnäck borough Skarpnäck may refer to: * Skarpnäck borough in Stockholm, Sweden *Skarpnäck metro station, a Stockholm metro station * Skarpnäck parish, a Church of Sweden parish in Stockholm, Sweden * Skarpnäcksfältet, a subdistrict in Skarpnäcks Gård dist ...

. The station is the southern terminus for the green line 17 and the easternmost Stockholm metro station (as of ). The station is below ground and was opened on 15 August 1994 as a one-station extension from

Bagarmossen Bagarmossen is a district within Skarpnäck borough of Stockholm, Sweden. Bagarmossen had 10 914 inhabitants as of December 31, 2009. Geography and transportation Bagarmossen is located southeast of central Stockholm, neighbouring the Skarpn ...

, making it the hundredth station in the Stockholm metro. As of it is still the newest station in the system. The underground Bagarmossen metro station was opened at the same time, but replaced an older station in Bagarmossen, which was closed on 8 July 1994. Skarpnäck is an underground station with a single vault spanning across the

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...

and tracks; its span of is the largest in the Stockholm metro. The station artwork by American sculptor

Richard Nonas Richard Nonas (January 3, 1936 – May 11, 2021) was an American anthropologist and post-minimalist sculptor. He lived and worked in New York City. Education Nonas was educated in literature and anthropology at University of Michigan, Lafay ...

consists of seventeen

granite Granite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies undergro ...

"benches" placed along the platform, as well as a red clinker floor and red-painted

shotcrete Shotcrete, gunite (), or sprayed concrete is concrete or mortar conveyed through a hose and pneumatically projected at high velocity onto a surface, as a construction technique, first used in 1907 invented by Carl Akeley. It is typically r ...

walls alluding to the red brick buildings in Skarpnäck. File:Skarpnäck metro 20190420 03.jpg, Ticket barriers and escalator access to the underground platform Skarpnäck metro 20190420 08.jpg, Granite bench

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