CZECH REPUBLIC Dutch duo wins Brno station design competition
Architecture and urban planningschedule 23 July 2021
The new intermodal station will have 14 platforms for high-speed and local trains, trams and city buses, as well as a regional bus station with 40 stops and a metro station
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Dutch studios Benthem Crouwel Architekten and West 8 have won the competition to design a new central railway station for Brno, in what was the largest architectural competition in the history of the Czech Republic.
The joint project was selected by the City of Brno out of 46 initial applications and a shortlist of twelve from such studios as BIG, Diller Scofidio Renfro, OMA, Snøhetta and Ingenhoven. The new Brno hlavní nádraží station, on the banks of the river Svratka, will take over from the existing station on the edge of the city's historic quarter, which was built in 1838 and is one of the oldest in the world. According to the jury, the winning design for the intermodal transport hub is sensitive
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