Foster + Partners的纽约中央车站方案

建筑设计公司Foster + Partners昨天在第三届MAS峰会上与SOM和WXY一起公布了他们关于纽约中央车站扩容项目的方案。福斯特的方案主要概括为：用加宽附近路道路的方法解决车站容量。设计要重新考虑这个100年历史的车站内部和周围场地，车站所在地区迅速增加的高层建筑使得车站越来越不堪重负，旧车站设计容量为每天为7.5万人服务，可是现在看上去每天能达到100万人。

Foster + Partners的方案包括将车站西侧的范德比克街改为步行街，在东线入口处形成一个被树木、咖啡桌和公共艺术围绕的广场，向东南扩至接近第42大街及莱克星敦大街，同时扩大地下空间，与北边的派克大街相连。车站内部，更宽的广场则缓解了4-7号地铁线的拥挤。诺曼•福斯特说：一个城市公共空间的品质与市民日常生活和自豪感直接相关，随着长岛铁路东线的使用及行政区的重新划分，从来没有比这更好的机会来解决这个最伟大车站的交通流线问题。去年，该公司还在西班牙高铁和伦敦郊外机场的设计竞赛中胜出。

建筑设计：Foster + Partners
项目地址：美国 纽约
英文名称：Grand Central Terminal

News: architecture firm Foster + Partners has unveiled proposals to increase the capacity of New York’s Grand Central Terminal by widening approach routes and pedestrianising streets.The architects were one of three teams invited by the Municipal Art Society of New York to re-think the public spaces in and around the 100-year-old station, which was designed to serve around 75,000 passengers a day but often sees as many as a million passing through.Foster + Partners’ proposals include the pedestrianisation of Vanderbilt Avenue to the west of the station, creating a public square at the entrance to the new East Side Access lines, surrounded by trees, cafes and public art.The plans also include wider pavements and trees on the southern approach from 42nd Street and along Lexington Avenue to the east, while larger underground spaces would lead into the terminal from Park Avenue to the north.Inside the station, wider concourses would help to ease congestion for travellers on the 4, 5, 6 and 7 metro lines.“The quality of a city’s public realm reflects the level of civic pride and has a direct impact on the quality of everyday life,” said Norman Foster. “With the advent of the Long Island Rail Road East Side Access, along with the plan to re-zone the district, there has never been a better opportunity to tackle the issues of public access and mobility around one of the greatest rail terminals in the world.”Foster + Partners presented their proposals yesterday at the third annual MAS Summit for New York City, alongside American firms SOM and WXY Architecture.In the last year the firm has also won a competition to design a high-speed rail station for Spain and presented proposals for an airport and transport hub on the estuary outside London.