Railway stations
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about railway stations
Project • By Studio ISA • Transports
Skywalk at The New Delhi Railway Station
New Delhi Railway Station is a major transportation node with approximate average foot fall of 450,000 people daily. The Airport Express line and the Yellow line of the Delhi Metro also have a subterranean underground station at the Ajmeri Gate side in-between the railway station and the Parking building . On the surface there is the Bhav Bhuti Marg and the drop off Zone of the Railway station.
ISA Project consulting Pvt LTD ( STUDIO ISA) won the competition for the design of the Bridge addressing all the requirements in a creative, unique and modular way. The highly creative architecture design firm used cutting edge technology using Grasshopper , Rhino , Unreal engine to provide a unique structure with a Zinc Fish skin roof and cover ove... More
Project • By ZJA Architects & Engineers • Train stations
Amsterdam Centraal, Amsterdam
A monument as traffic hub
Buildings too can have family ties. Amsterdam Central Station is the everyday, practical little sister of the grand and art-minded lady that is Het Rijksmuseum. They resemble each other a lot, sharing the same father. Pierre Cuypers contemplated building two new gates as an entrance to the city, the railway station in the north, the museum in the south. Besides being a monument to the industrial renaissance of the city in the late 1800s, the station is a traffic hub of still growing importance. In the years to come train traffic and other forms of public transport will grow so much, that despite the recent modernizations, the station will have to be prepared for the future yet again.
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Project • By AREP GROUP • Transports
Orléans Multi-modal Transport Hub
The original passenger shed was set perpendicular to the tracks and was demolished and replaced by a vast passenger concourse, 44 metres wide and 73 metres long, including a cantilevered canopy 7 metres above floor level, covering the space of the original building and the Rue St-Yves. This houses the platform crossing for passengers moving around the station and towards the transport facilities, and SNCF service provision such as sales and waiting areas, etc. located at the intersection of the tram-train interconnection.The tram-train link, a full-blown, 16-metre wide pedestrian footway running between the bus and tram station, has been created out of the volume of a former public car park. Retail and service provision is situated on eithe... More