Grimshaw and Wilkinson Eyre appointed to design HS2 stations
Grimshaw Architects and Wilkinson Eyre have been selected, alongside engineers Arup and WSP, to design stations in Birmingham and London for the high-speed rail network HS2. More
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Brooks + Scarpa drapes wavy metal screen over Seattle transit station
California architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa has wrapped a Seattle transit facility in an undulated, blue aluminium screen that was influenced by a dance performance. More
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Zaha Hadid Architects completes first phase of high-speed rail station in Naples
Zaha Hadid Architects has completed the first section of a new high-speed train station on the outskirts of southern Italian city Naples, which is set to open this weekend. More
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Foster + Partners to design seven new stations for Sydney Metro
Foster + Partners has won a competition to create a chain of seven stations along an extension of the Sydney Metro, which will tunnel beneath the city's harbour. More
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"Crystalline" roof by Theo Hotz zigzags over Vienna Central Station
A+Awards: Swiss firm Theo Hotz Partner Architekten has created an undulating cover for platforms at Vienna's Central Station, which received an Architizer A+Award last year. More
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Softroom uses luxury materials to create decadent apartment-like Eurostar lounge in Paris
London studio Softroom has designed a new Eurostar lounge for business-class passengers in Paris' Gare du Nord, featuring a circular cocktail bar and plush upholstery. More
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Undulating roof covers Benthem Crouwel's rail and bus station in Utrecht
A wave-like roof covers this vast transport hub in Utrecht designed by Dutch firm Benthem Crouwel Architects for the largest railway station in the Netherlands. More
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"With a good culture war, you can ignore the real reason why British transport architecture is so grim"
The problem with Britain's railway stations isn't anything to do with style, it's that they are all just malls waiting to happen, argues Owen Hatherley in his latest Opinion column. More
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Elongated cabins by Kamvari Architects to be built along Trans-Siberian Railway
Kamvari Architects has won a contest to design pit stops along the world's longest railway line, by proposing a series of wooden cabins that look like elephants' trunks. More
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BIG wins Paris Metro competition with looping station design
Danish firm Bjarke Ingels Group has teamed up with French studio Silvio d'Ascia Architecture to design a loop-shaped station for a new stretch of the Paris Metro. More
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Rasem Kamal proposes warren of subterranean services for Jordan's Wadi Rum
Architect Rasem Kamal has proposed a network of burrow-like spaces that would sprawl out beneath a UNESCO-protected valley in the Jordanian desert. More
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Koen van Velsen Architects creates patchwork brick walls for bus and rail station in Breda
Koen van Velsen Architects has created a new transport hub in Dutch city Breda, featuring a huge entrance canopy and a variety of brickwork styles (+ slideshow). More
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Calatrava's Oculus at the World Trade Center photographed by Hufton + Crow
Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava's vast ribbed structure that soars over the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York is captured in these images by British photography duo Hufton + Crow (+ slideshow). More
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"Railroad stations are our contemporary architecture of democracy"
Opinion: the golden age of airports is over, says Aaron Betsky. Railways have trumped air travel with better-designed terminals that are the epitome of contemporary democracy. More
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"Calatrava's transit hub feels utterly scrubbed of memory and dislocated from New York"
Opinion: Santiago Calatrava's World Trade Center transit hub may be Instagram-friendly, but it is part of a troubling trend for public spending on spaces that aren't really public at all, says Alan G Brake. More
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Santiago Calatrava's World Trade Center transit terminal to quietly open next week
The World Trade Center Transportation Hub, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, is scheduled to partially open next week in Lower Manhattan, more than a decade after work began. More
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Benthem Crouwel's new station for The Hague brings light in through a patterned glass roof
Dutch firm Benthem Crouwel Architects has rebuilt the central railway station in The Hague with a huge diamond-patterned glass roof (+ slideshow). More
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Competition-winning plans unveiled for two new Moscow Metro stations
Timur Bashkayev Architectural Bureau and BuroMoscow have won an international competition to design two new stations for the Moscow Metro network (+ slideshow). More
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AZPML's Birmingham New Street Station renovation revealed in new images
New photographs show the undulating form of AZPML's recently completed £750-million renovation of Birmingham New Street Station (+ slideshow). More
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SOM reveals images of grand hall for New York's Penn Station
US architecture firm SOM has released new images of the proposed Moynihan Train Hall expansion at New York’s Pennsylvania Station, which would turn an old post office into a grand waiting room for Amtrak. More