Moynihan Train Hall Is a New Year's Gift to New York City
An adaptive reuse project 27 years in the making, the SOM-designed Train Hall is a striking contrast to Penn Station, setting the tone for future transit updates in New York.
An adaptive reuse project 27 years in the making, the SOM-designed Train Hall is a striking contrast to Penn Station, setting the tone for future transit updates in New York.
The Netherlands, a country with more bikes than inhabitants, invested over €30 million in the multistory structure.
The 1.46-million-square-foot development features a steel diagrid dome covered with more than 9,300 glass panels and a multi-story terraced landscape.
At a Metropolis Think Tank panel held at Grimshaw's New York office, a panel of architects and planners discussed the past, present, and future of transit hub design.
Cycling in the City: A 200-Year History at the Museum of the City of New York casts a fresh light on an urban design battle that still rages today.
Designed by Andrew Bromberg at Aedas and perched next to Victoria Harbour, the station features a 700-tree green roof and a 147-foot-tall main hall.
#CES2019 provided insight into how city governments and the private sector are reimagining the urban landscape, especially vis-a-vis transportation.
Metropolis spoke with Nithin Rao, cofounder of Ford subsidiary Autonomic, to discuss the digital platform that Ford is developing for mobility apps and providers.
Metropolis interviews Seleta Reynolds, general manager of L.A.’s Department of Transportation (LADOT), about modernizing transit and making cities more equitable.
This forthcoming generation of cellular network promises to power a new wave of smart city and mobility technologies.
A panel discussion on the first day of CES explored how Autonomous Vehicles could revitalize urban transit—or foment congestion and bad urbanism.
The two projects, which are helmed by HOK and SOM, respectively, aim to become enduring civic spaces.
Existing streets could host new high-tech transportation services, though ensuring those new transit systems bring equitable growth is a challenge.
As part of our 2018 Design Cities issue, Metropolis looked at projects, firms, and places that are driving global design culture today.
SOM is leading the redesign of the James A. Farley Post Office into the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Train Hall, a rail station that will anchor real estate development on Manhattan's Far West Side.© Empire State Development,…
Metropolis was at CES in Las Vegas to get the latest on how new technologies are shaping tomorrow's cities.
Metropolis talked to Jessica Robinson, the mobility company's director of city solutions, about how she's paving the way for the future of transit.
Metropolis interviewed experts from Honda, the City of Las Vegas, and Deloitte about how technology is changing cities.
"If you get hacked in a physical system, people die," says Sokwoo Rhee of the Department of Commerce.
While fully driverless vehicles still face major hurdles, car companies are realizing technologies now that could quickly inform urban planning and transit.