WTC Transportation Hub New York: Calatrava

World Trade Center Transportation Hub building by Santiago Calatrava

Design: Santiago Calatrava. The world’s most expensive station has opened to the public in New York. The $4 billion ‘winged dove’ building is expected to serve more than 200,000 commuters daily.

George Washington Bridge Bus Station Renewal

George Washington Bridge Bus Station

Original Design: Dr. Pier Luigi Nervi. Construction on the terminal has been further delayed, pushing the opening date to December of 2016. GWBBS opened in 1963, designed by the noted Italian engineer-architect of the 1960 Olympic Stadium in Rome.

Barneveld Centrum by NL Architects

Barneveld Centrum

Design: NL Architects. “Barneveld Centrum in principle is a very nice station. It includes a snack bar and clock tower. But there is room for improvement.”

Arnhem Station Building, Dutch Railway Building

Arnhem Station Building

Design: UNStudio / Arup. Arnhem Station will be officially opened this week, on 19 November. The multidisciplinary approach by the architecture firm UNStudio and Arup linked architectural design to human behaviour in a unique way.

Kurumoch International Airport in Samara

Kurumoch International Airport in Samara

Kurumoch International Airport Samara: the architecture and design of the new terminal reflect the space-related status of the city where space launch vehicles are constructed.

Altrincham Transport Interchange

A team of designers and stakeholders led by AHR has completed a £19 million multi-model interchange in Altrincham commissioned by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM). AHR has worked to redesign the station in order for TfGM to better integrate the various modes of transport – bus, taxi, rail, tram and cycling.

Shenzhen North Railway Station Towers

Shenzhen North Railway Station Towers

Design: HPP International, architects. A new skyscraper of 258m marks the peak of Shenzhen’s Longhua District skyline. Traffic-oriented development integrates public spaces and sky gardens to create a vertical city.

Infrastructure System for Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dhaka Metro Line Bangladesh Infrastructure System

Infrastructure System for Dhaka: transport development in Bangladesh – design by John McAslan + Partners architects – $3billion metro project comprising 16 elevated stations and a depot

ARTIC Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center

ARTIC - Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center

Design: HOK and Parsons Brinckerhoff. The Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) is a recipient of a 2014 AIA TAP BIM Award. Since 2005, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Technology in Architectural Practice (TAP) community has spearheaded an effort to highlight outstanding case studies in the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology and processes on construction projects.

CoRE Stoke on Trent, Enson Pottery Works building

CoRE Stoke on Trent

Design: Purcell. Centre of Refurbishment Excellence (CoRE) recognised by Royal Institute of British Architects

CoRE, Purcell’s scheme to regenerate the former Enson pottery works in Stoke-on-Trent, England, has won two prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Awards: RIBA West Midlands Regional Award as well as a special Sustainability Award.
The project has transformed the Grade II listed Enson Works pottery factory building with its distinctive kilns into a national centre of excellence for low energy building retrofit, conference venue, exhibition zone for innovative products in the retrofit market and a construction training college.

Hoenheim Nord Terminus Strasbourg

Hoenheim Nord Terminus 1

Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. The first part of this initiative was the development of Line ‘A’ that ran east to west across Strasbourg. A parallel initiative to the design of the transport system was the inclusion of a number of artists, such as Barbara Kruger and Mario Mertz, to make specific installations at key points of the line.

High Speed Rail Station in Stoke on Trent Proposal

stoke-on-trent-high-speed-rail-station

Design: Ryder Architecture

Ryder Architecture worked with Stoke on Trent City Council to develop designs for a proposed iconic city centre high speed rail station which have been now been submitted to HS2 and the government.

Royal Docks Cable Car: London River Crossing

Cable Car Royal Docks, River Crossing London, Emirates Air Line Project Royal Docks Cable Car : New London River Crossing East London Dock Building, England, UK – design by Aedas, Architects 19 Nov 2013 The Structural Awards 2013 This project is one of the winners of The Structural Awards 2013. photograph : Luke Hayes (left) … Read more

Riyadh Metro Saudi Arabia Infrastructure

Riyadh Metro Saudi Arabia Infrastructure

FCC, the infrastructure and environmental services group, has achieved a new milestone in international construction. The company has been awarded one of the contracts to build the Riyadh metro, Saudi Arabia.