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Project • By AZC Architects • Subway Stations
Station HLS
Site : Saint-Genis-Laval (69), France
Client : SYTRAL
Team : AZC architects, EGIS Rail, Systra, Aartill, Sibat, Interface
Program : Deep metro station for the south extension of the line B
Mission : Complete
Size : 2.642 m²
Calendar : 2015 – 2023
Julien HOURCADE
LOCATION AND CONTEXT
The Hôpital Lyon Sud (HLS) metro station completes the extension of line B of the Lyon metro.
Located opposite the hospital, along the Chemin du Grand Revoyet, the new urban development project includes the metro station, an express bus line, a 900-space park-and-ride facility and commercial premises.
The metro box is 80m long, 25.5m wide and descends... More
News • News • 28 Feb 2023
CAAT Studio revives a forgotten urban space around a metro station into a vibrant plaza in Tehran
In the context of the Sadeghiyeh metro station, one of Tehran's oldest and busiest transport hubs, CAAT studio transforms a forgotten urban space around the entrance terminal into a lively public plaza.
Ali Ehsani
With transport exchange facilities, the area remains bustling and acts as a focal point where visitors and residents pause and socialize. However, the space lacked organization and faced issues and disruptions, like misuse of pedestrian sidewalks, inconvenience caused to visitors due to crowding, visual and noise pollution caused by parking, and lack of a designated space for social events.
Parham Taghioff
To address these issues, the project involves organizing the various uses of the plaza in a uniform... More
Project • By Oneworks • Train stations
Oslo Fornebu Centre Station Competition
Oneworks was shortlisted for one of the six Fornebubanen stations in a team working alongside Collective Works and Planke, as well as subcontractors Pir 2.
The Fornebubanen is the largest subway development in recent time in Oslo and will be about 8.2 km long, extending from Fornebu Centre to Majorstuen. Six new stations will be built along the new line with two stations in Oslo at Vækerø and Skøyen, and four stations in Bærum including Fornebu Centre, Flytårnet, (Telenor) Arena and a station at Lysaker.
The shortlisted design creates a striking new point of arrival into the heart of the emerging mixed-use community southwest of central Oslo. The design team sought to increase light and view down to the pla... More
Project • By AI-architects Architectural bureau • Train stations
Sheremetyevskaya metro station
The Moscow Metro is among the main sights of Russian capital city and is known as masterpiece of engineering and architectural thought. The best architects were involved in the construction of the Metro: Ivan Fomin, Alexey Dushkin, Boris Iofan, consultants were Alexey Shchusev, Ivan Zholtovsky.
In June 2017 Moscow based Architectural bureau AI-architects won an international competition for architecture and design of a new metro station "Sheremeryevskaya", which will be built in 2020.
Anyone who had ever entered the underground transport artery of the Russian capital could appreciate the extraordinary breadth of variants of architectural-artistic appearances, the compositional integrity of the spaces of all halls and platforms, light... More