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Tianjin West Railway Station  

Tianjin West Railway Station

Tianjin, China

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Tianjin West Railway Station

Tianjin, China

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2011
A key factor in the building of the new station is the construction of the new high-speed line between Beijing and Shanghai. Hence the importance of the station as a regional transport node linking local trains, long-distance as well as city buses. In particular the station clusters the long-distance traffic and the city’s metro.

The demand for the urban planning for the west station is to link the two halves of the city of Tianjin above the river, the railway tracks and the southbound freeway. A barrel vault roof with a height of 57m and length of 400m connects the Commercial and Business District (CBD) with Tianjin’s old city. In this, the arch shape of the roof acts like a large-scale city gateway, while the stretched concourse constitutes a passageway in the classic sense. The lozenge-shaped weave of the roof structure admits daylight to the concourse, allowing orientation and clarity on one hand, cosiness and a high degree of ambient comfort on the other hand. The Southern forecourt of the station forms a large coherent open-space whose importance and dimensions match those of the station.

The situation at the water and the distinctive silhouette of the station change and shape the characteristics of the city of Tianjin. It is a station that is conceived both technically and constructional for sustainable operation with a maximum degree of functionality and which illustrates a contemporary interpretation of the cathedrals of traffic from the heyday of the railway stations.

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