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Going underground: ten subterranean building projects

James Wormald

31.03.2022

As space becomes more precious above land, it's a natural response to retreat below. Underground construction opens up new worlds, whether to protect us from the elements or to protect the elements from us.

As above, so below: Benthem Crouwel discuss their new ...

Jaime Heather Schwartz

07.11.2018

Benthem Crouwel’s new North-South metro line brings the overground underground with its urban-space approach to subway-station design.

Going underground: new metro stations

Peter Smisek

07.11.2018

How do you keep the masses on the move while making the passenger experience as efficient and pleasurable as possible? A number of recently completed metro stations show how. All aboard!

Parking for the people: new car parks

Peter Smisek

22.05.2018

With design concepts integrating environmental factors, multi-use function and strong aesthetics, today’s car parks are bringing man and machine into better coexistence.

Going Loco: station projects steam ahead

Dominic Lutyens

19.08.2017

Road congestion, airport check-in and security issues, centre-to-centre journeys – just some of the factors informing rail's burgeoning number of passengers. Architects are responding to this with spectacular grands projects that signal train

Taking route: 5 bus stations going places

Madeline Bouton

19.08.2017

From the Philippines to the Netherlands, bus-station projects are revving up.

Dutch Architecture

TLmag

18.04.2017

For decades a test bed for bold, experimental projects, the Netherlands continues to function as an architecturally compelling landscape – both in terms of design practice and consumption.

Next Stop: new bus-station architecture

Simon Keane-Cowell

03.08.2016

Summer's here. Let's take a trip! Traditionally the poor cousin to more grandiose transport-architectural types like airports and railway stations, bus-station design is moving into top gear.

Station to Station

Alyn Griffiths

12.04.2016

There has been a dramatic shift in the demands placed by public transportation on contemporary architecture since the turn of the millennium – the need to square the burgeoning of passenger numbers that attends the unstoppable march of urbanisation