December 12, 2008The
Milan-
Bologna tract of the Italian High-Speed Railway Network will be inaugurated tomorrow, thus enabling a great leap forward towards the completion of this powerful infrastructure. Once up and running full blast, it will become a sort of “high-speed underground” that, in very short time, will connect the major Italian cities (
Milan-
Bologna in just over an hour,
Milan-
Naples in 4 hours and 10 minutes) and the major European capitals.
The interest of the world of architect lies principally in the consequent realisation of the
new train stations, including the reconstruction of already existing stations.
The design of these new poles of urban requalification – this is what the
New Stations for
High-Speed will become – have indeed been entrusted to some of the great names of world architecture:
AREP in
Turin,
Santiago Calatrava in
Reggio Emilia,
Arata Isozaki in
Bologna,
Norman Foster in
Florence,
ABDR in
Rome, and
Zaha Hadid in
Naples.
Bon voyage!