Stockholm city bus terminal

Ralph Erskine, the Architect of Byker Wall and The Ark worked on the city's bus terminal in 1989. This is very much of it's time and a couple of years before the Ark.

The main passenger interchange is a long atrium with quirky curved roofs, glazed lifts, rounded corners and fair faced block work with bands of marble. It is strangely peaceful and simple in it's operation.

Passengers feed in to the central spine from the streets at either end and access to the busses is via gates along the spines length. The whole section is stepped along it's length. Escalators, lifts and bridge links populate the atrium dividing it into a series of quite intimate and spaces.