Dubai is never short on ostentation, and the Emirate’s showy Metro system is themed spectacularly around the four elements. One station is full of curves echoing sand dunes; another has a fiery glow to suggest the inside of a volcano. But the most over-the-top is BurJurman station, which features an underwater look, complete with giant chandeliers in the shape of jellyfish. At the other end of the scale, Munich’s Westfriedhof station has its own set of oversized but understated lamps (pictured) from a designer with impeccable credentials. Ingo Maurer’s lighting has been exhibited in Europe, Japan and the US, with several of his designs in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. In 2001 he created 11 huge aluminium shades, which cast colour over the station’s concrete walls and platforms. Eight years later, Maurer developed the lighting concept for the [Münchener Freiheit](http://www.ingo-maurer.com/en/projects/muenchner-freiheit) interchange, where a mirror-finished stainless steel ceiling and recessed blue LEDs make pillars appear to glow from the inside. (Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images)