The Eye On The Street

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Birmingham New Street is the largest and busiest of the three main railway stations in the Birmingham City Centre, England. It is a central hub of the British railway system.I share the photos of this fascinating building I took with iPhone 7.

In 2013, one half of the new concourse was opened to the public and the complete concourse opened in 2015 (Wikipedia)

The London firm co-founded by architects Alejandro Zaera-Polo, former dean of Princeton's School of Architecture, and Maider Llaguno, reshaped Birmingham's existing 1960s station to increase its capacity to 52 million passengers per year. The undulating stainless-steel cladding added around the old station is based on the distorted shapes seen from moving trains. (J. Mairs, Dezeen,2016)

Arguably, the geometries of the motion in the roof are giving a pleasent effect to the viewers as happened to me.

High roof and large area give passengers a spacious feeling.

The curving aesthetic continues into the interior, where a large atrium above the station concourse is topped by seven domed skylights made from transparent ethylene tetrafluoroethylene plastic.(J. Mairs, Dezeen,2016)

Reflective stainless steel surface was used in the project.

The bifurcating, undulating, smooth forms of the track field have been transferred and embedded into the geometry of the building to ornate the city and to convey its historical character as a transportation hub, where various traffic systems – such as the famous canals, the roman roads etc. converge and overlay. The design aims to trigger a new perception of the urban settings around the station, by specifically reflecting selected areas of the urban landscape around the station. (AZPML, ArchDaily, 2016)