estudioHerreros   Spain   One hundred years after the arrival of the railroad to Santiago de Compostela, the trench occupied by the extramural rails continues to be an almost insurmountable barrier between the historic center and the neighborhoods that emerged along the roads

Zaha Hadid Architects   Lithuania   With a scheme titled ‘Green Connect,’ the British firm Zaha Hadid Architects has won the competition to redevelop the train station of Vilnius and the areas around the complex. It will be part of the Rail Baltic line, for which the same architecture

Ingenhoven Architects   Germany   Like many other European cities in the 19th century, during the years of the railway boom Stuttgart grew around its central station. With the city center already packed, today the train tracks have become a barrier between the East and North district

Buchner Bründler Architekten   Switzerland   The urban scale, geometrical regularity of the structure, the linearity and proximity of the railway and bus lines are a few of the characteristics of the Altdorf station, which is going to be transformed into a New Railway Link through the Alps...

gmp Architekten OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   China   The firms Rem Koolhaas – OMA and gmp Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner are the winners of the competition to draw up the masterplan and architectural design for Chengdu Future Science and Technology City, located 50 kilometers from Chengdu and

Ábalos + Sentkiewicz   Spain   The result of a competition won in 2006, the intermodal station of Logroño was part of a much larger urban plan to bury the railway line as it traversed the capital of La Rioja region, and which also involved creating a large linear park and five res

Foster + Partners   China   The firm of Norman Foster has won the competition to design Guangming Hub, a transport-oriented development on the high-speed rail link that connects Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou, with three new metro lines incorporated. The latest technologi

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   Characterized by an organic language that unifies the project, this cultural complex harbors a contemporary art museum, a theater seating an audience of 1,800, and a multipurpose auditorium... [+]

Mecanoo   Netherlands   Perfectly integrated into the existing street pattern and inspired in the wooded landscape of the Veluwe area, the station is protected with a roof formed by wood triangles that, like a canopy of leaves, lets light pass through... [+]

Kengo Kuma   France   The station, which evokes the railway tracks and the passage of time with the wood frames of its curtain wall, extends the adjacent public space and also houses complementary programs that will reactivate social and cultural life in the district.

Zaha Hadid Architects Esplan   Estonia   A design drawn up by the British firm Zaha Hadid Architects – in collaboration with the Estonian practice Esplan – has been awarded first prize in the competition for Rail Baltic’s new terminal in Ülemiste, a subdistrict of the country’s capital. The

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Italy   In 2004, the city of Naples invited, under the motto ‘Architecture, Archaeology and Art’, firms like those led by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Álvaro Siza, Benedetta Tagliabue or Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas to design the new metropolitan line.

Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas   Spain   The Granada Metro construction works, which began in 2007, involved building a single rail line crossing the city, connecting it with several towns in the metropolitan area and linking many of its key activity hubs and sites. This infrastructure cove

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   Switzerland   The international competition for the restructuring of the main railway station of Geneva pursued the double objective of optimizing its operations with a view to the future underground extension – between 2025 and 2050 –, and providing it with a new

Dominique Perrault   South Korea   The French firm Dominique Perrault Architecture, in collaboration with the South Korean office Junglim, has won the international competition for the construction of ‘Light Walk,’ the future intermodal transport hub and shopping center in Seoul’s Gan

Penzel Valier AG   Switzerland   The Tramdepot is a large hall covered by a structure of aluminum strips and U-shaped profiles of white translucid glass; aside from conveying an image of lightness, the building responds to the local climate and looks different depending on light...

Dominique Perrault   Switzerland   The objective of the intervention is to favor a greater connection between the adjacent public spaces by displacing the current bicycle parking to an underground area and proposing a new tower with a perforated base... [+]

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Mount Chäserrugg is the easternmost peak of the seven mountains that make up the Churfirsten Massif. It rises up gently from the Toggenburg to the north reaching up to 2,262 meters, and becomes a steep cliff to the south, plummeting almost 1,900 mete

Dominique Perrault   France   Located at different height, two disks of 58 and 66 meters in diameter configure a lightweight roof that marks the entrances to the station hovering over a central void that connects the city with the train tracks buried 50 meters deep... [+]

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   France   A pergola of panels inspired in the lively colors and patterns of African fabrics unifies the exterior volumes and the plaza. The central space, clad in the same material and with four zigzagging stairs, receives natural light through a large skyligh

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   France   The new looping station for the extension of the Paris metro encloses a central covered space and connects the three municipalities around it – Bondy, Bobigny, and Noisy-le-Sec – as well as the two levels located at either end of the canal... [+]

Jean Nouvel   Belgium   The project to renovate the railway station includes, in its 250,000 square meters of offices, retail spaces and conference center, a V-shaped building over the train tracks and several structures stretching along Fonsny Avenue.  The V-shaped office

estudioHerreros Rubio & Álvarez-Sala   Spain   The project has a double objective: to connect the outskirts with the center and to become the gate of entrance to the city; like a bridge, the new building features different accesses and looks out to the natural context like an urban balcony...

John Puttick Associates was awarded the 2021 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize, recognizing its thoughtful and detailed conservation of Preston Bus Station, located in Preston, UK, a civic monument of central importance that serves as a hub

The firm led by the British architect Norman Foster has been selected to design Guangming Hub, a high-density urban development linked to the railway that runs through Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou. Following the model known as TOD (transit-orie

Adif has publicly named the teams selected to go on to phase two of the competition to transform the Madrid–Chamartín station: UNStudio with b720; RSHP with Luis Vidal; Souto de Moura with Francisco Mangado and José María Ezquiaga; Grimshaw with Carl

Chinese president Xi Jinping a few years ago lambasted the ‘weird architecture’ that international stars were building in his country (see Arquitectura Viva 169), but his denouncement does not seem to have been much heeded. Otherwise there would be n

A posthumous work of the architect Antonio Jiménez Torrecilla, who passed away in 2015, has been inaugurated: the Alcázar Genil station of the Metro of Granada. Characterized by the particular povera and at the same time minimalist image that its aut

Barcelona has officially opened the latest segment of line 9 of its metropolitan raiway system, to which the team formed by Jordi Garcés, Daria de Seta, and Anna Bonet has contributed three stations: Amadeu Torner, Parc Logístic, and Mercabarna. Each

Anyone able to look back on the times when Zaha Hadid was still an ‘underground’ architect will easily manage to see the recently opened Napoli Afragola Station as an exaggerated materialization of the project with which the Iraqi-British architect w

The Seville-based firm of Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra is the winner of an international competition for the opportunity to restructure the central area of the Cornavin Railway Station in Geneva. The purpose of the project is to improve the station’s

The Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava has inaugurated at Manhattan’s Ground Zero a work of extraordinary visibility and symbolic importance. Located at the World Trade Center, the Oculus station will connect ten New York City subway l

Las estaciones de ferrocarril en superficie rasgan dramáticamente las ciudades, de ahí que, en las últimas décadas, una de las prioridades en la gestión de las infraestructuras españolas haya sido recuperar la continuidad urbana perdida de tantas ciu

En el transcurso de un acto que ha reunido al ministro de Fomento, a la presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid y al alcalde de la capital, se ha inaugurado la primera fase de la ampliación de la estación de Atocha, un proyecto desarrollado por el estud

Junto al nuevo estadio de fútbol Amsterdam Arena, al sureste de la ciudad, se encuentra la remodelada estación Bijlmer Arena, en un barrio conflictivo de vivienda social anteriormente dividido por las vías del tren. Lo que en un principio iba a ser u

Doce años después de haber ganado el concurso para su adjudicación (véase Arquitectura Viva 55) y con siete años de retraso sobre el plazo previsto, se ha inaugurado la estación de alta velocidad Lieja-Guillemins, última obra de Santiago Calatrava en

Entre 1985 y 1992, la ‘Operación Atocha’ sustituyó la obsoleta Estación del Mediodía —cuya marquesina se mantuvo como invernadero— por un gran complejo ferroviario integrado por una estación de Cercanías y una de largo recorrido, origen del primer AV

Michele Cannatà   Fatima Fernandes   El proyecto del metro ligero de Oporto ha establecido nuevos horizontes y nuevas posibilidades en los modos de intervención de la arquitectura contemporánea. Sin campañas publicitarias sensacionalistas, Eduardo Souto de Moura ha dado forma en pocos a

Keith Miller   It is axiomatic among critics that the sequel tends not to be as good as the original. But whereas the Jubilee Line started life as an inconspicuous sapling grafted on to the Bakerloo Line to ease congestion between existing stations in the West End

Marta García Carbonero   Faculty in La Coruña and Station in Córdoba  Two buildings – one in Galicia and the other in Andalusia – share the National Prize for Architecture, bestowed every two years by Spain’s Council of Architectural Institutes in conjunction with the M

Transformed into a global office, Foster Associates began to have a large proportion of its workload abroad. Hong Kong had opened up the Pacific Rim, and Nîmes would be the first significant commitment on the other side of the Channel, soon to be fol