Shenzhen, China SOLVING SHENZHEN’S TRANSIT PUZZLE The construction of Shenzhen North Railway Station was the engineering equivalent of completing a giant jigsaw puzzle. Description When the city of Shenzhen announced plans to build “the best train station in Asia”, it clearly meant business. Predicted to serve more than 44 million passengers annually by 2020, Shenzhen North Railway Station is the new hub of South China’s high-speed train and passenger rail network. With its cantilevered roof structure and space-age façade, the station is an architectural statement reecting the dynamism of an ambitiously expanding metropolis. But what’s inside is equally exciting. Completed in 2011, the station accommodates local and long- distance bus links, eleven platforms and twenty train lines, includ

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