Transit Facilities
Kansas City’s recent downtown economic boom can be attributed in part to the $850 million, nine-block Kansas City Power + Light District, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, and KC Streetcar, a 2.2-mile light-rail system that opened in May 2016. City of Kansas City.
In Los Angeles, the entertainment district L.A. Live is expected to benefit from the proposed exp...
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The Port of Long Beach in Southern California has engaged in terminal expansions and other infrastructure improvements to handle larger ships coming from Asia and retain its position as one of the America's top ports. Image: Pixabay
But land constraints around the terminals are pushing asset prices and rents to new highs.
Rendering courtesy of Foster + Partners
The project will create key infrastructure for the future development of the city and provide it...
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Courtesy of IBI Group
The route will connect with Toronto public transit.
Rendering courtesy of White Arkitekter.
The building will be a train station and City Hall for the Swedish city of Växjö.
Rendering courtesy of Bjarke Ingels Group and Silvio d’Ascia Architecture
Bjarke Ingels Group and Silvio d’Ascia Architecture teamed up to create the winning submission....
Rendering courtesy Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
The public will now judge the five proposals by providing comments and feedback.
Expo Light Rail Phase 2, a $700 million project, is the final stage that connects downtown Los Angeles to its beaches. The 6.6-mile, seven-station extension opened last May, and will be one of Greenbuild's project tours. Image: Courtesy of Skanska
Skanska-built light-rail extension in Los Angeles achieves Envision’s highest recognition.
Sterling Bay's proposal for a 958-foot-tall office tower is among an array of development and redevelopment projects it has in the works in Chicago. Image: SOM via skyscraperpage.com
The building is one of several projects that are filling this developer’s plate in this city.
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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Perkins+Will, Skanska USA, Webcor Builders, Jacobs, and STV top B...
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Chicago's Union Station. Photo: Jazz Guy/Creative Commons.
The third-busiest station in the country needs more space.
Renderings and video courtesy Broadway Malyan. Click here to enlarge.
The $100 million “Crown of Miami” will provide visitors panoramic views, and it will glow at nigh...
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Denver’s downtown Civic Center Station. Renderings courtesy Perkins Eastman. Click here to enlarge.
Renovations to a 30-year-old bus transit hub will improve commutes and lure visitors.
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Hampton Roads Transit (HRT) Norfolk Transit Center, Norfolk, Virginia. ALPOLIC®/PE in SMX Silver Metallic Finish. Photographed by Chris Cunningham Photography.
Whether building architecture or catching a bus, everyone’s happy when things run right on schedu...
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Carlos Arnaiz Architects (CAZA) has designed four different types of stations for Cebu, Philippines' first bus rapid transit system. Image courtesy of CAZA
New York-based CAZA designed the modular bus stops with the city’s extreme weather conditions in...
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King Abdullah Financial District Metro Station. Rendering couresy Zaha Hadid Architects. Click here to enlarge.
More than 110 miles of track will connect 85 stations over six lines. The cars can reach speeds u...
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The 53-foot-diameter oculus looms over the grand atrium. Suspended under tension within the conical atrium is the “Sky Reflector-Net,” by James Carpenter Design Associates, Grimshaw Architects, and Arup. The artwork is composed of 112 tensioned cables, 224 high-strength rods, and nearly 10,000 stainless steel components; 952 aluminum panels distribute sunlight down to the lowest levels of the station. Photo: Jon Ortner/Ortner Photography.
Fulton Center, which handles 85% of the riders coming to Lower Manhattan, is like no other statio...
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The ground floors of Oceanwide Center's two towers will be lifted up five stories to create an “urban room” with pedestrian crossings. Image: Foster + Partners
One of Oceanwide Center’s buildings will be the city’s second tallest.
Photo Credit: Daniel Schwen, Wikimedia Commons
AllTransit analyzes the social benefits of good transit service by analyzing data related to heal...
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Target Field Station, Minneapolis, Minn. Photo: ©Morgan Sheff, courtesy Perkins Eastman
BD+C's rankings of the nation's largest transit/TOD sector design and construction firms, as repo...
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Renderings: © Governor Andrew Cuomo
Governor Andrew Cuomo presented plans to turn Pennsylvania Station and the neighboring James A. F...
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This AIA CES Discovery course discusses the six elements of an EIFS wall assembly; common EIFS fa...
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The southern entrance of the proposal for Euston Station. Renderings courtesy Arup
Renderings that have been released show a glazed façade and a new entrance that will create a “li...
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Renderings courtesy NBBJ (via Dezeen)
For once, walking can be faster than taking a train.
The base station is only four minutes from Snøhetta's city center, and a cable car ride up to the Virgolo Cliff wil last only a minute. Renderings by Sonaar, courtesy Snøhetta
In Snøhetta’s design, two cylindrical rings embedded into the existing topography, each at differ...
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Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center
The Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) is the Grand Central Station of the...
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The new transport hub will integrate the city center once separated by tracks. Renderings courtesy BIG
“Like a continuous thin sheet, the roof is gently lifted at its four corners, wrapping the city's...
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Designed by Israeli architect Haim Dotan, the white bridge is meant to look as if it is “disappearing into the clouds.” Renderings: Haim Dotan
Designed by Israeli architect Haim Dotan, the white bridge is meant to look as if it is “disappea...
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The Coltlite natural louvered ventilator provides buildings with both day-to-day ventilation and smoke control to aid building evacuation in the event of a fire.
BD+C’s roundup features colorful sprinklers for offices, hotels, museums; a fire-rated curtain wa...
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A separated bike lane on Higgins Street in Missoula, Mont. Photo courtesy City of Missoula
The guide consolidates lessons learned from practitioners designing and implementing separated bi...
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