The West Kowloon Express Rail station, scheduled for completion in 2015
It will feature greener designs and be packed with energy-saving devices, although the upper floor and roof will use glass panels to allow as much natural light as possible, MTR Express Rail Link general manager Paul Lo Po-hing said yesterday.
The four-story building will provide more open spaces and green zones at ground level, instead of the conventional wall effect of a tall building, with nine platforms for long-haul trains and six for short- haul, 144 immigration counters and 600 car parks to accommodate 10,000 travelers per hour.
The company has also reserved an area for a one-stop immigration clearance point.
The gross floor area is around 380,000 square meters.
“It will be like having another airport in terms of its size and function,” design manager Frank Yuen Cheung-fan said.
Yuen said the size of the station is more than 70 percent of the airport’s Terminal 1 and more than double Hong Kong Station.
Construction of the station, part of the HK$55 billion Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link project, will begin at the end of the year and is scheduled to be completed in 2015.– read more at The Standard…
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