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.

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Italy   In 2004, the city of Naples invited different international architects – including Benedetta Tagliabue, Richard Rogers, Álvaro Siza, Massimiliano Fuksas, or Dominique Perault – to design the stations for the city’s 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   Italy   The proposal transforms the infrastructure that connects the historic and the 20th-century city – which stretch on both sides of the railway line – into a public space, covered with a green blanket and equipped with retail areas and public facilities

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

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

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

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

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

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

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