Technical & Practice
Beijing South Station – a replacement gateway
This is a fully integrated multi-modal transportation hub, serving as gateway to the capital and a vital link in China’s new high-speed intercity rail network. A major urban building and masterplan, it is one of the largest contemporary railway stations in the world (Beijing West is the largest), designed for a turnover of 220,000 passengers a day, and 80 million per year by 2030. It replaces the old Beijing South Station, opened in 1897, half a kilometre away. A new model in railway station design was developed to accommodate these vast numbers, integrating the multimodal transport interchange facility with a vertical segregation strategy designed for direct, convenient and highly efficient passenger traffic flows. It opened in time for the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
Location Beijing, China Architect Terry Farrell & Partners and Third Railway Survey and Design Institute Group (TSDI) Client Ministry of Railways, China Structural, services and acoustic engineer TSDI and Ove Arup & Partners Pedestrian and traffic Engineer TSDI and Atkins China Construction period December 2005-August 2008 GFA 217,446 m2 Cost RMB 3 billion (£289,423,800)
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