Oslo Central Station // Oslo // Norway

This futuristic and visionary railway station in Oslo is designed by the Norwegian-based SPACE GROUP. The goal of this project, is to create one of Europe's most High-Tech and modern railway stations. It is not the first project of its type (projects regarding modernizations of railway stations), but it is expected to be one of the first completed. Construction is expected to begin in 2013 and expected to end between the years 2018 and 2023. The construction costs are estimated to be around €361 million. 

The project's 80,000 m2 are to room station facilities, offices, a hotel tower, shops, conference rooms, restaurants and bistros and an open event space. The Oslo Central Station was once the heart of the Norwegian capital, but time has apparently altered its role in the city, which is why the SPACE GROUP architects are attempting to revive the city's station to once more be a social center. The architecture of the project has a sort of modernized Gothic church sort of character, making some areas of the station seem almost like the interior of a church (notice the above picture).