Foster & Partners and engineer Arup have been selected to design four stations on the first segment of the California High-Speed Rail line, which will eventually stretch from San Francisco to Los Angeles and beyond.

The joint-venture partners said their Merced, Fresno, Kings/Tulare, and Bakersfield stations for the 171-mile Central Valley stretch of the line would serve as “models of design” for the entire 500-mile route, which will continue from downtown LA to Anaheim, in Orange County.

Fosters has an office in San Francisco and opened a studio at Venice Beach in Los Angeles in September last year.

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