Transport Facilities

The necessarily static nature of architecture provides a foil to the kinetic programme of buildings dedicated to transport or transportation architecture, whether it be hubs, terminals, stations or storage, over land, sea or air. Representing an ever-present constant within the flux of comings-and-goings, these structures must function both on a pragmatic and emotional level, filtering passengers through complex security and procedural systems while also bearing witness to the highly emotive moments of departure and arrival. The following projects in very different ways celebrate movement and transport,; from proselytising of use of public transport, to heightening the drama of ground breaking engineering, the simple (yet subversive) act of using a bicycle. They are a collection of buildings that are indeed functional and efficient yet also serve as backdrop to often fraught and emotionally charged peregrinations.