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Hangzhou Metro Line 9
Hangzhou Metro Line 9 — Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 2021. 2 published photographs of a terrazzo installation (custom mix / beige family, fine aggregate).
Hangzhou Metro Line 9 is a finished project in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, completed in 2021. The catalogue that publishes these photographs files it as a project name, a year and the mix used; the mix it prints for this project is custom mix / beige family, fine aggregate. A station floor is chosen for what it has to survive — trolleys, cleaning machines, and years of traffic — and the photograph can show the surface, never the service.
The photographs
2 photographs, as published, in the order the catalogue prints them. They are the manufacturer’s own images of the installation, not ours: the company marks and the camera stamps have been removed, and nothing in this entry has been measured, tested or certified by us. What a photograph cannot show is the assembly underneath — that is a drawing, not a picture, and it is the part that decides the outcome.
What to ask about a project like this
Three things separate a floor that matures well from one that does not, and none of them is visible in a photograph: what assembly sits under the topping, what maximum aggregate size the specification allows, and whether the panels for one floor were produced as one lot. A floor assembled from four purchases is a floor with four colours in it, and no amount of laying fixes that. Ask for the three answers before asking for the price.
This entry is a reference, not a claim of having supplied this project. It carries no price because there is no stock behind it. If a project like this is in front of you, send the drawing and the area, and we will quote against a real batch — cut to your formats, produced to one lot.
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