Foster & Partners wins competition to design futuristic China transport hub

Fosters Guangming 5

Scheme will feature fleets of autonomous vehicles on ‘skybridges’

Foster & Partners has won the competition to design a major new transport hub in southern China featuring a cluster of towers spaced around an existing high-speed railway station.

The Guangming Hub, which will include autonomous vehicles moving around a network of skybridges, will be the centrepiece of a masterplan aiming to create a new urban destination in the region.

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