Stazioni Dalla Gare de L'Est alla Penn Station

[Railway Stations. From the Gare de l’Est to the Penn Station]. This book proposes a history of railway architecture, reinterpreting its most significant developments. This book proposes a history of railway architecture, reinterpreting its most significant developments. The overview opens with the Gare de l’Est in Paris, the first large terminal station of the nineteenth century, and ends with the leading contemporary terminals and interchanges that mark the prototypes of a new kind of station. Grand Central Terminal in New York and Michelini’s station of Santa Maria Novella in Florence are used to introduce the part devoted to recently constructed stations and those being completed. The numerous contemporary stations that have been selected include Santa Justa of Seville by Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz, the Kyoto Station Building by Hiroshi Hara, the extension of the Gare du Nord in Paris by the Arep Group, the Cologne airport station by Helmut Jahn, Berlin’s Lehrter by Meinhard von Gerkam, and the Arnhem station by Un Studio. Each of these is introduced by a critical text and is documented with drawings on different scales and extraordinary photographs.