Prague’s Main Train Station is in for a quite stunning transformation. A Danish studio has just won the competition to overhaul it, with a design that includes a huge wooden, canopy-like structure at the front of the check-in building.
At Prague’s CAMP architecture centre on Monday evening, the Danish architectural studio Henning Larsen was announced – from a shortlist of three – as the winner of a competition to remodel what it calls Prague Central Station.
It will see a major overhaul of both the main station building itself and the surrounding area. The most striking change will be a large, open wooden structure stretching from the check-in building over part of the adjacent park, whose grim reputation earned it the nickname Sherwood.
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Author: Ian Willoughby