This week on Dezeen, we revealed Eurostar’s UK terminal at Amsterdam’s central train station, designed by Superimpose Architecture and ZJA Architects & Engineers to honour the terminus’ original 19th-century features.
The mostly subterranean terminal was designed to connect train passengers between Amsterdam and London and replaces a former terminal on platform 15, but is four times larger.
“This ‘terminal of the future’ defines a new era for cross-border rail traffic, and brings together various time periods, technologies, aesthetics, and efficiency,” said Superimpose Architecture.
Another transport project was completed in Los Angeles, where architecture studio Grimshaw’s rail and bus station just outside Los Angeles International Airport was unveiled.
The LAX/Metro Transit Center connects directly to LA’s urban centre and was designed by Grimshaw with engineering firm Arup and executive architect Gruen Associates.
In China, Aranya Holdings Group, the developer behind the Seashore Chapel (pictured) by Vector Architects, won a landmark architectural copyright infringement case against Henan Jingkaili Real Estate, which was found to have copied Seashore Chapel’s design.
The Xinxiang Intermediate People’s Court of Henan Province ruled that the infringing building has to be demolished and ordered Henan Jingkaili Real Estate to pay 20,000 yuan (£2,069) to Aranya Holdings Group.
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), which owns the Neom project, has asked consultants to conduct a review of the feasibility of linear megacity The Line.
The city was planned to house 300,000 people by 2030, but PIF has now asked consulting firms to determine whether the 170-kilometre-long city is feasible.
“The Line remains a strategic priority,” Neom stated.
Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura was awarded the Japan Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale 2025 prize for architecture this week.
The annual award was given to Souto de Moura for creating work that “resonates with its time”. Souto de Moura, who has previously also won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, will receive an honorarium of 15 million yen (£77,000) as the winner of the award.
Two designs for landmark skyscrapers were unveiled. In Paraguay, Foster + Partners revealed designs for a 188-metre-tall skyscraper in Asunción that would be the country’s tallest and serve as the headquarters for Sudameris Bank.
In San Francisco, developer Hines has submitted an application to build a supertall skyscraper. If completed, it will become the tallest building on the West Coast of the US.
In design news, the Olympic medals for the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games were revealed this week.
The minimalist medals feature two opposing halves, one frosted and one polished, and the design draws on Italy’s avant-garde design movement of the 1960s and 70s.
Popular projects this week included the UK’s largest co-housing scheme, an updated mid-century house in Aspen and a house overlooking a river in Hampshire.
This week’s lookbook focused on interiors with discreet metal accessories.
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