Transport

Barcelona Metro
One of the most important utilities in the Barcelona Metro has to be the efficient lighting system.	There will be a vast expansion of the metro network to cover the urban expanse of Barcelona.	The metro's power system includes electrical mains for services and for emergency lighting.
In an environment such as the metro, materials and equipment used must be of the highest quality.	BCN lighting has been adapted to the urban quality and nature of the metro.

Beijing International Airport,
The new Beijing terminal is open to views of the outside.	The airport will accommodate an estimated 50 million passengers a year by 2020.	Beijing International Airport was completed in time for the 2008 Olympic Games.

Beijing South Station
Beijing South Station at night.	The central hall will be wide enough to fit a Boeing 747 with the covered roof area being the size of 20 football pitches.	The curved roof of Beijing South Station.

Bridge 360, Malmö
Bridge 360 in Malmö, Sweden, was the proving ground for the FENDER integrated roadway sidelighting system.	FENDER is a purpose-designed linear luminaire for use on bridges and other public ways, which require single or double-sided light distribution.	Bridge 360 is also marked with custom lanterns terminating the support masts.

Dresden Central Station
Dresden Station roof now glazed with Teflon-coated panels.	Dresden Station's old reception building now with shops and a travel centre.	A close up of Dresden Station's new roof panels.
The front of Dresden station showing its old architecture.	A new glazed section of roof covers bars and cafes.	The iron work of the vaulted glazed dome can now be seen.
Dresden Station roof from the outside.	The extended portion of the roof covering the new longer platforms.	Behind Dresden station more redevelopment work has been underway.

Farnborough Airport, London
The design team have eschewed the traditional 'shoebox' in favour of a more spacious widespan structure.	Three bays can house six Boeing 737s.

Fulton Street Transit Center, New York
The Fulton Street dome has been inspired by a classical icon - the Pantheon in Rome.	The dome is designed to allow natural light into the space below.	Passenger flow has been monitored with the aim of reducing congestion within the station.
A 50ft-high glazed entrance pavilion will provide retail and restaurant amenities.	The 3D model of the dome used to analyse the interaction of the architecture with the sun's path.

JetBlue Terminal, JFK Airport, New York
The iconic TWA Terminal, designed by Eero Saarinen, will front the site of the new JetBlue Terminal at JFK Airport.	The connecting tubes of Terminal 5 will provide links to JetBlue Terminal.	The 640,000ft² JetBlue Terminal building will have 26 contact gates (twice the current number).
Above all, Gensler's design emphasises efficiency of movement.

Kitakyushu Airport
Basic plan for the layout of the New Kitakyushi Airport.	New Kitakyushu Airport passenger terminal building.

Kitakyushu Airport Passenger Terminal
The main roof element at Kitakyushu International Airport is inspired by the 'lantern' parade floats used at the local Gion Festival.	The tartan grid framework recalls the simple, sturdy framing of traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture.	The triple-wave roof of the domestic and international passenger terminal at Sendai International Airport was inspired by the surrounding mountains and the lapping waves of the nearby coastline.
Mezzanine and departure lounge at Sendai Airport.	The 37,160m² domestic and international passenger terminal consists of two levels with 11 aircraft gates accessed from a tubular concourse.	The international passenger terminal at Fukuoka International Airport integrates lightweight, simple-span structures with north-facing clerestories.
The curved roof of Fukuoka Airport's international passenger terminal is supported by exposed tube steel composite trusses that allow for deep overhangs on the east and west sides of the building.	The skylit, atrium-like spine at Fukuoka International Airport serves as the main circulation hub for arriving and departing passengers.

Kyoto Station, Shimogyo Shichijo District
The imposing black façade of Kyoto Station's main tower housing offices and hotel.	One of the railway platforms beneath the main building.	Kyoto Station's Phoenix clock.
Kyoto Station's huge internal space is very futuristic.	Kyoto Station's wavy roof is a fascinating structure of braced steel truss supports and glass.

Lohring Underground Station, Bochum
The entire Lohring underground platform surface of 550m² is elaborated as a single light source.	All furnishings and fittings of Lohring underground station share a design style.	The aluminium surface and the metal columns generate interference, which becomes visible to the human eye as colours.

Madrid-Barajas Airport Terminal, Madrid
The Madrid-Barajas airport terminal makes a point of revealing its skeleton to the user.	The inside of the roof is covered with bamboo, creating a warm feel.	The Madrid Barajas airport terminal has an enormous surface area of 1.2 million square metres.
Each module of the roof is supported by articulated iron columns at 18m intervals.

Mass Transit Railway Tower (Union Square Phase 7),
The Union Square development area showing the area where the MTR tower is to be built and some of the finished buildings.	Map of the layout of the Union Square site.	Artist's representation of the new tower design.
Artist's representation of the Union Square site looking over to Victoria Harbour.

Napoli-Afragola Railway Station, Napoli
Napoli-Afragola railway station will announce to visitors that they have arrived in Naples.	The need for easy access and free movement was instrumental in the development of the bridge concept.	The Napoli-Afragola design is geared towards facilitating free movement of traffic.

Paradise Project, Liverpool
The interchange has security doors, which will automatically open when buses arrive at the bays.	The transport interchange will be able to handle 'bendy buses' in the future.	£200m has been spent on the Paradise Street Development Area project so far.
The Paradise Project during construction.

Paris Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 2, Roissy
The roof of CDG-2 consists of a curved steel lattice structure supported on pre-stressed concrete pillars.	CDG is connected to the RER urban rail network, providing services into central Paris.	Terminal two includes a TGV station with high-speed trains connecting to various destinations in France.
CDG-2 plays host to TGV trains to European and French cities and also the local RER trains to stations around Paris.	The RER B train at the CDG-2 station, which transports passengers to Paris.

Shibuya Subway Station,
As people on upper floors peer down the well toward lower floors of Shibuya Station, the sightline grows narrower.	In the heart of Shibuya Station, a covered atrium slices down through all three floors, creating an open, airy feel.	Since June 2008, the thriving Shibuya district of Tokyo has boasted an underground subway station in the shape of a spaceship.

Southern Cross Station, Melbourne, Victoria
The undulating roof is designed to expel diesel fumes from Southern Cross Station. While it is waterproof to the outside it 'breathes' internally, allowing smoke, diesel particles and contaminants to be discharged.	Southern Cross Station's main platforms. The newly refurbished interchange can now provide 15 million passengers a year, with fully sheltered, high-quality ticketing, baggage-handling, waiting and retail services.	The roof and main station looking from Spencer Street entrance. The roof's form has been generated by the requirements of the station and plays a crucial role as part of the environmental envelope.
Southern Cross Station provides a vital link in a regenerating area. It is hoped that this increased connectivity will encourage regeneration and improve commercial growth locally.	Over 120 passenger information screens have been installed at Southern Cross Station with real-time train arrival and departure information.

Spaceport America, New Mexico
From above, the spaceport resembles a manta ray.	Spaceport America is situated in the nondescript New Mexican desert.	East, west and south elevations of Spaceport America.
Entrance to the spaceport is via a deep channel, with an exhibition on the walls.	Cutaway view of the spaceport showing the terminal and superhangar.	Governor Bill Richardson and Richard Branson announced the Spaceport America plans in 2005.
The Spaceport America site is located in the New Mexico desert, 45 miles north of Las Cruces.

Terminal 3 Beijing Capital Airport, Beijing
The two passenger terminal buildings will have a larger combined surface area than all of Heathrow's five terminals.	The usable ground area is increased by curving the sides of the two Y-shaped structures.	At night, the glow from the yellow, orange and red lights can be seen through the roof, outlining the terminal's distinctive silhouette.
The scale of the expansion was both a challenge and an advantage for the designers of the passenger terminal.

Terminal 5, Heathrow Airport,
17 years in the making, Heathrow’s £4.2bn terminal 5 opened in March 2008 and should provide a major boost ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games.	Heathrow Airport's terminal 5 incorporates an 87m control tower and the UK's largest single-span waveform roof.	The new Heathrow air traffic control tower was completed in 2005.
The main terminal building (housing concourse A) is 396m long, 176m wide and 39m high, and contains 80,000t of structural steel.	The T5 terminal interchange area.	Aerial view of the T5 site.

Terminal D, Dallas / Fort Worth Airport
The new terminal, programmed to encompass two million square feet, has had to be accommodated within a 29-acre site.	Major circulation passages are oversized in order to accommodate moving walkways.	A new three-level roadway system and eight-level parking garage was included on site.
The international passenger terminal hoped to set entirely new standards for facility design.	The Terminal D design provides a much-needed departure from the existing paradigm.

Wembley Park Station, London
Wembley Park Station is being expanded in response to the increased capacity of the new Wembley National Stadium.	The Wembley Park Station entrance concourse from Bridge Road (in construction).	Nighttime view of Wembley Park Station from Olympic Way.

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