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Planes, Trains, and Architecture: Transportation's Most Stunning Structures

Get on the road and discover the beautiful buildings that house planes, trains and automobiles.


Between Facebook, Twitter, online streaming, and even 2-Day Shipping, it’s easy to feel like all earthly boundaries and impediments—time, space, geographic features, inconvenience—have been finally transgressed. But your morning commute would very quickly tear you away from any such delusions. Despite all our finger-swiping savvy and invisible cloud infrastructures, we have yet to achieve similar powers of apparition/disapparition that would instantly propel our bodies from place to place. Meaning, there’s still very much a need for planes, trains, and automobiles—and all the architecture that corresponds to each.

These are the finalist from the A+ “Transportation” typology. We’re not only talking airports and bus/train stations here, but also parking structures, port facilities, and boat piers, too. So grab your passport and take advantage of one of these transpiration hubs. Spot a favorite? Make sure to vote for it over at the A+ Public Voting site.

AIRPORTS




Bodrum International Airport
?Tabanlioglu Architects?
Bodrum, Turkey



Carrasco International Airport
Rafael Vinoly Architects
?Montevideo, Uruguay



San Francisco International Airport Transit 2
?Gensler?
San Francisco, California


BUS & TRAIN STATIONS



Bus station Osijek
?Rechner Architects?
Osijek, Croatia



Rest stops?
J. Mayer H. Architects?
Gori, Georgia



The Yardmasters Building
McBride Charles Ryan?
Melbourne, Australia


PARKING STRUCTURES




Bicycle station ICE Bahnhof Erfurt?
Osterwold°Schmidt EXPANDER?
Erfurt, Germany



Chesapeake Car Park One?
Elliott + Associates?
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma



Enlighten your light?
labers12?
Bolzano, Italy



UC Davis Medical Center Parking Structure III?
Dreyfuss & Blackford?
Sacramento, California

UNI Multimodal Transportation Facility
Substance Architecture
Cedar Falls, Iowa

PORT FACILITIES & BOAT PIERS

Development of Cruise Terminal Extension Project
?Martín Lejarraga arquitecto?
Cartagena, Spain



Guertin Boatport?
5468796 Architecture?
Storm Bay, Canada

Marine Company 01
?CR Studio Architects, PC?
New York



Pavillon Alpenquai
Cometti Truffer Architects?
Zug, Switzerland
This post is part of the GOOD community's 50 Building Blocks of Citizenship—weekly steps to being an active, engaged global citizen. This week: Get a Passport. Follow along and join the conversation at good.is/citizenship and on Twitter at #goodcitizen.
























































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