Editorial: Station Agent
In architecture competitions, the runner-up scheme is sometimes the most interesting one. That?s the case in the recent Re-imagining Railways design competition, run by RIBA and Network Rail, which aimed to rethink Britain?s over 2,100 small and medium-sized railway stations. The winning proposal, by Edinburgh-based 7N Architects, is an elegant design with a beacon-like clock tower and a modular station layout. But a more impactful and unexpected re-thinking of the nature of infrastructure can be seen in the proposal by Toronto?s Workshop Architecture, one of five finalists selected from over 200 entrants.
Workshop?s shortlisted proposal invited local station agents to re-activate Britain?s small rail stations.
Workshop co-founder Helena Grdadolnik was familiar with rural British rail stations from a stint working in the UK. ?They were often an unpleasant 30-minute walk outside of town, and not that visible from the road. If you didn?t know where you were going, you wouldn?t necessarily see them,? she says. The fact that many of the buildings are shuttered, more than half of the stations are unstaffed, and few have washrooms, all make the experience even more uncomfortable?especially, say, for a woman travelling alone at night. According to Network Rail?s surveys, 61 percent of passengers do not feel safe at its 1,192 unstaffed stations. Workshop determined that the core issues with Network Rail?s stations wouldn?t be solved with nice new buildings, but would need to star...
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