Could paris' abandoned metro stations be turned into this?

Photo: NKM Paris (via HuhMagazine)

Poltiican Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet released the proposals, designed by Manal Rachdi and architectural planner Nicolas Laisné, suggesting a reimagination of the ghost subway stations.

The one depicted in the drawings, reports The Telegraph, is Arsenal, which is just south of fully-operational station Bastille. Arsenal closed in 1939 and has never been reopened, one of 16 stations around the French capital to be left vacant.

London's own Tube network includes a similar array of unused stations, one of which, Aldwych, is frequently used for films, appearing in movies such as Atonement and V for Vendetta. Kosciusko-Morizet's stunning plans for the stations are far more radical, ranging from theatrical spaces to swimming pools and art galleries.

Voters will be asked how to use the underground spaces should she win the country's elections next month.