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The Master Plan established guidelines for open space, circulation, and sustainable landscape strategies for the future of Los Angeles’ historic Union Station. The Plan prepares the station’s 47-acre campus for the growth of light rail and the probable addition of high speed rail, while improving pedestrian and bicycle connections to El ...
Los Angeles Union Station Master Plan . Planning Context and Sustainability . 2 . Goals of the Master Plan Project . •Accommodate Current and Future Transit Needs . •Create an Iconic Place of Extraordinary Design . •Protect and Enhance Union Station . •Improve Access and Connectivity to the City Around Us .
Conceived on a grand scale, Union Station became known as the “Last of the Great Railway Stations” built in the United States. The structure combines Art Deco, Mission Revival, and Streamline Moderne style. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
2 maj 2012 · The vision for the master plan of Los Angeles' Union Station was designed in collaboration with EE&K a Perkins Eastman company, and Jacobs Engineering. The 'Vision Board' – a conceptual rendering in the year 2050 – shows Los Angeles Union Station as a multi-modal transit hub with a mix of uses, new development and outdoor spaces.
With a Mission-influenced Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, Union Station continues to evoke Los Angeles’s Spanish past to arriving passengers with its arcaded walkways, swaying palm and pepper trees in outdoor courtyards, and majestic interior spaces with richly beamed ceilings and colorful tile accents.
ARG has produced Design Guidelines for tenant improvements and designed retail spaces and kiosks that complement the station’s glorious interior.
Los Angeles Union Station is the main train station in Los Angeles, California, and the largest passenger rail terminal in the Western United States. [7] It opened in May 1939 as the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, replacing La Grande Station and Central Station. Approved in a controversial ballot measure in 1926 and built in the 1930s ...
