People are invited to climb the curved, plant-covered roof of the new train station in West Kowloon, Hong Kong, designed by Andrew Bromberg at Aedas.
West Kowloon Station officially opened in September 2018. It is the new terminus of the 88-mile-long Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed rail service (XRL), which connects to the National network all the way to Beijing, a 15,500 mile journey away.

Andrew Bromberg at Aedas won the competition to design the station held by the MTR Company. It forms part of the West Kowloon Cultural District, a new arts district being built on reclaimed land on the city's waterfront.
Drone footage shows trees, shrubs and other greenery planted in beds along parts of the station's rooftop, which has stairways leading up to a plaza with views over Victoria Harbour. At its highest point, the terminus is 25 metres. And, as most of the railway lines end underground, the station building also extends 25 metres below ground at its deepest point.

There are 15 underground tracks – nine for long-haul trains and six serving the shuttle services. MTR Corporation, the company that runs Hong Kong's mass transit rail system, also runs the XRL and its 220-mile-per-hour trains.
The international train station is closer to an airport in scale, processing passengers through 400,000 square metres of floor space.
Photo by Virgile Simon BertrandImmigration service areas for those crossing the border between Hong Kong are stacked a...