Liège-Guillemins Station
Liège-Guillemins is a railway station in Liège, in eastern Belgium. Designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, it replaced the 1958 station building and opened in September 2009. A huge vaulted roof of steel, glass and white concrete, about 160 meters long and 32 meters high, covers all the platforms. What stands out is that there is no wall you could call a facade: the roof is open at both ends, and the line between inside and outside disappears. Diffused light falls through the evenly spaced white ribs of the ceiling, and even the shadows are pale and uniform, making it hard to tell the time of day or the weather. After a train leaves, the platform becomes a silent space where only the white framework goes on and on.
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Nearby liminal spaces
- Antwerpen-Centraal, Grand Staircase and Underground Platforms (104 km)
- Rotterdam Centraal Wooden-Lattice Platforms (163 km)
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