Rotterdam Central Station

With the renewed station, Team CS have created a monumental, modern transfer machine. Extending from the station concourse to the subway entrance, the roofing establishes a logical connection between above-ground and underground public transport and between the front and the rear of the station. The hall itself offers an immediate overview, with two entrances towards the buses, a wide passage towards the tracks and a connection with the underground bicycle storage.

The clock, the lettering and the ornaments from the demolished reconstruction have been reused in the new station. Striking new elements are the steel columns and glass platform roofing with solar cells through which filtered sunlight enters the space. The views from the passage to the platforms and the elongated roof lights equipped by mirrors form an ingenious whole.

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