EFFEKT and collaborator karres+brands have won a competition to transform an industrial waste site into a new vibrant urban district and infrastructural hub in the historic center of the city of Roskilde, Denmark. Beating out seven other invited teams, the winning design will encompass 100,000 square meters of mixed-use development across existing railroad tracks, reuniting the city and ?reinventing the station as an integral part of the city center.?

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EFFEKT and collaborator karres+brands have won a competition to transform an industrial waste site into a new vibrant urban district and infrastructural hub in the historic center of the city of Roskilde, Denmark. Beating out seven other invited teams, the winning design will encompass 100,000 square meters of mixed-use development across existing railroad tracks, reuniting the city and ?reinventing the station as an integral part of the city center.?
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While Roskilde station is already the most trafficked railway hub in Denmark outside of Copenhagen, since its completion, the railroad tracks have acted as a barrier, cutting off the contemporary city development from its historic downtown. EFFEKT?s solution will transform the station into a ?unifying hub? by injecting new urban life and improved pathways throughout the district.?The new Station Area will transform the previous divided city into a new urban destin...