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Train and Metro Stations on ArchEyes gathers railway and metro architecture where infrastructure becomes civic space. From Santiago Calatrava’s stations in Zurich and Mons to Snøhetta’s Qasr AlHokm in Riyadh and the Elizabeth Line in London, these case studies examine platforms, concourses and canopies, the movement of crowds, structure and daylight, and how a station can anchor its neighbourhood as a true public room for the city.
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Qasr AlHokm Metro Station introduces large-scale public transport infrastructure into the historic center of Riyadh through a spatial framework that combines an underground transit interchange with a civic plaza. Organized…
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Santiago Calatrava’s Gare de Mons organizes a fractured urban territory into a continuous civic sequence by spanning the rail corridor with a raised concourse and a long steel-and-glass canopy. The…
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Santiago Calatrava’s design for Stadelhofen Station in Zürich is a landmark in transportation architecture that seamlessly blends engineering and urban integration. Originally a 19th-century railway station, it was reimagined in…
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Rome’s Termini Station, inaugurated in the 19th century, has long stood as one of Europe’s premier transit centers and a landmark of modern Roman architecture. As the beating heart of…
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Officially opened on the 24th of May 2022, the Elizabeth Line is London’s newest railway. The new line, designed by Grimshaw Architects in collaboration with Atkins, Maynard, and Equation, brings…
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In their latest design, Arup and Cobe have partnered to design two new metro stations of the Nordhavn metro line extension connecting the docklands to Copenhagen’s city center: Orientkaj and…
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