Showing posts with label spectacular. Show all posts
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Saturday, October 26, 2013

Spectacular Train Stations; was Tutuban train station one of them?

Repost from CNN NewsThe interior of the Liège-Guillemin station in Liege, Belgium. The facility's ultra-modern glass and steel facade is featured in promotional posters for upcoming Wikileaks docu-drama, The Fifth Estate, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Although far from Belgium's biggest or busiest station, Liège-Guillemin is fully equipped for high speed arrivals and departures as well as commuter trains.



We had a group work exercise on ideation and innovation which concerned megacities.  The major topics included architecture, energy, mass transportation, waste disposal.  And the class submitted a lot of ideas;  it shows the degree of engagement and the development of creativity among students. 

This article at CNN shows that you can have great transport system and great architecture at the same time.  Our MRT and LRT train stations are uninspiring.  Can they be made more appealing and compelling in the future?

The Tutuban train station looked great before, right?


                   

                   

 The classy yellow facade and green copper dome of Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, Australia. The century-old structure is the busiest suburban railway station in the southern hemisphere with 110,000 commuters passing through each day, according to the City of Melbourne.