Transport
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about transport
Project • By Genton • Train stations
Pakenham Station
Genton unveils Pakenham Station as a landmark transport hub in Melbourne’s southeast.
Australian architecture practice Genton has completed Pakenham Station, a new transport hub on Melbourne’s south-eastern rail corridor that seamlessly integrates cutting-edge digital fabrication with an expansive public realm transformation.
Peter Clarke
Spanning 2.5 kilometres, the project forms part of Victoria’s Level Crossing Removal initiative, elevating the railway and removing three road crossings to create an uninterrupted connection through Pakenham. The resulting infrastructure not only enhances safety and traffic flow but also introduces over 20,000 square metres of newly landscaped community space beneath the viaduct, f... More
News • News • 8 Oct 2024
Archello Awards 2024 Longlist – Transportation Hub of the Year
Archello Awards 2024 has revealed its longlist for Transportation Hub of the Year. The longlists celebrate the very best building products, architecture projects, and firms selected from over 1,000 entries for the second edition of Archello's annual awards program.
Metropolitan Station in Lublin by Tremend
Tremend
Lublin’s Metropolitan Station has officially opened. This modern facility is a key component of the complex Integrated Transportation Centre project that is being erected in the capital of the Lublin Voivodeship...
Park and ride bus station
ATELIERS O-S ARCHITECTES (Vincent Baur+ Guillaume Colboc + Gaël Le Nouëne)
The Cesson-Viasilva Park and Ride and Bus Station, de... More
News • News • 8 Sep 2020
UNStudio’s brand manual for Doha Metro Network orchestrates first phase completion of 37 stations
UNStudio developed an Architectural Branding Manual that sets out an extensive set of design guidelines, architectural details and material outlines to assure the spatial quality and identity of the new Doha metro. Currently the first phase is completed with three metro lines (red, green and gold) that weave together 37 metro stations.
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Most transport in Doha is done by car. The introduction of the most advanced and fastest driverless metro systems in the world is an attempt by the Qatar Rail Architecture Department to create an efficient and reliable alternative to private transportation.
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The Architectural Branding Manual comprises a large catalogue of architectural 'branding' elements w... 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
Project • By Piotr Krajewski - Architectural Photography • Bus stations
The Transport Hub in Solec Kujawski
The transport hub in Solec Kujawski, completed in June 2016, is part of BiT City - the modern high-speed
rail network connecting the two capital cities of Kujawsko-Pomorskie region in Poland: Bydgoszcz and Toruń.
The hub is located, more or less, in the middle of the distance between the two cities, was the last stage in
the construction of the „BiT City” network.
The design proposed by RYSY Architekci was determined by an existing landscape. Before the works
began, there was an old railway platform on the top of a small hill, an undeveloped green land and an
incoherent urban environment with an old railway station building from the beginning of the 20th century and
a commercial pavilion with multi-family blocks from the 1970s and... More
Product • By Fugu furniture • Fugu, nomad air furniture
Fugu, nomad air furniture
Since its inception, Fugu® vision has been to create not only inflatable furniture but a sustainable clean furniture. The fabric is extremely durable and will not degrade during its long service life. It is free from odor and chemically inert. Uncontaminated scrap material and material used can easily be recycled.
Much more than simply inflatable furniture, FUGU® incorporates the use of air and water to inflate the furniture and a textile cover for a modern finish.
FUGU® is both versatile and contemporary without compromising comfort. Coming from a thorough trend - mobility - FUGU® introduces
Drag and Drop furniture: easy to inflate / deflate, lightweight, portable and compact.
Given its lightweight, FUGU® significantly reduces tr... More