Location: Gothenburg, Sweden

Just announced as the winner of the competition for the new terminal building of Gothenburg’s railway station was the team including Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter, Cobe, Dorte Mandrup and Erséus Architects. 

Inspired by Gothenburg’s historic Central Station, its distinctive arches and vernacular materials recall railway architecture’s origins in scale, form, aesthetic and function the pioneering modernism of that age.

Europen railway tradition

The winning firm wrote of their design “It is an honorable task to design a building that carries such an identity for city life as a station building. We are in a kind of renaissance for trains and its station connections. In European metropolitan tradition, the station was often a monumental architectural structure. A cathedral of modernism, which today manages great cultural and historical values. The expression and architecture of the station building must therefore be as timeless as it is future-oriented. Inspired by Gothenburg’s historic Central Station, the development of the infrastructure and the life of the city, it will be a new signature building in the heart of Gothenburg.”

The building adds a new entrance from the north for the Central Station. Of the three entries for Västlänkens station Centralen, it is the largest. The newly constructed district’s entrance will be located in the new station building. This intersection is made appealing to encourage more people to use public transportation in a secure and environmentally friendly urban setting.

The Start of construction for the new station building is planned for mid-2024 to be completed at the turn of 2026 – 2027 by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter working in a team with Bollinger+Grohmann engineers.