Spotlight: Napoli Afragola Station, by Zaha Hadid Architects
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Napoli Afragola high-speed railway station, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), was inaugurated last year with 18 high-speed trains as part of Phase 1. New photographs released by Hufton+Crow mark the first year of train services at the station that receSpotlight: Napoli Afragola Station, by Zaha Hadid Architects
Napoli Afragola high-speed railway station, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), was inaugurated last year with 18 high-speed trains as part of Phase 1. New photographs released by Hufton+Crow mark the first year of train services at the station that received the 2018 Surface Travel Award for Transportation. BBC hailed it as one of the world’s best buildings to open in 2017.The station is being built in phases and once all the phases are complete in 2022, Napoli Afragola will become a gateway to southern Italy and key interchange station serving four intercity lines, three regional lines, and a local commuter line, according to ZHA. The station has been designed to meet the region’s future demand for rail travel, which has increased by more than 50 percent in the past decade. When complete, the number of trains will increase to 28 in each direction serving 32,700 passengers every day, which means approximately 12 million passengers each year.“In addition to the high-speed services connecting Bari and Reggio Calabria with the north of Italy and beyond to cities throughout Europe, new rail infrastructure currently in development will create an important hub at Napoli Afragola serving the entire Campania region by integrating the southern expansion of Italy’s high-speed network with the Napoli Cancello line and the extension of the Circumvesuviana commuter railway,” writes ZHA.“Developed to become a vital interchange between local, regional and national rail services, Napoli Afragola is within Italy’s new north/south high-speed rail corridor that will connect the 15 million residents of Campania, Puglia, Molise, Calabria and Sicily in southern Italy with the national high-speed rail network, as well as enable goods and passengers from Europe and northern Italy to easily access the southern ports of Gioia Tauro, Taranto, Bari, Brindisi, Palermo and Augusta,” adds ZHA.The station is located 12 km north of Naples.“This extraordinary station is the work of a great architect and of enormous strategic value,” said Gioia Ghezzi, president of Ferrovie dello Stato, Italian state railways at Napoli Afragola’s inauguration last year. Italia’s former prime minister Paolo Gentiloni hailed the project as “a wonderful combination of artistic and engineering expertise.”Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the latest images of the project.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more