Jiaxing is a historic city 60 miles southwest of Shanghai. There, MAD Architects—an international office with locations in Beijing, Rome, Jiaxing, and Los Angeles founded by Ma Yansong—has completed a new train station, marking the studio’s first transportation infrastructure reconstruction and expansion project.
MAD Architects was tasked with replacing a dysfunctional train station that operated in Jiaxing between 1995 and 2019. The defunct station was only 43,000-square-feet, too small for a city of 1.4 million people, and counting. The new train station was designed to facilitate growth in the rapidly expanding city, and its design is emblematic of the avant-garde, experimental studio’s repertoire.
The renovated railway
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