At Legat Architects’ 2021 Think Tank, Chicago and Quad Cities urban planning, transit, and development specialists discussed the role of public transportation in crawling out of the pandemic, combating disinvestment, and reconnecting the two regions. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2021 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, the U.S. gets a D-minus in […]
59th and 60th Street Metra Station Renovations
Train station architecture: designing the productive train station
A closer look at what it takes to make the train station a productive piece of the civic landscape My last post on train station design argued that the right architecture can make the train station much more than a place to wait—a well-conceived design can improve visitors’ perception of a community, spur the local […]
Train Station Translation: A Lesson in Design Vocabularies
A train station’s style has a lot to say. Literally and figuratively, train stations connect municipalities. The station is the gateway to the tracks that lead people to other places. It is the face that a city or village shows to commuters, and, in many cases, an embodiment of a community’s values. Midwestern stations adopt […]
