Station Design Competition
The BostonBRT Station Design Competition was a 2017 ideas competition that created opportunity to showcase creative, innovative, and inspiring modern designs for a critical part of the BRT system: The Station.
Covered stations are a core feature of the BRT experience. While in traditional bus systems riders wait at “stops” marked only by a sign and sometimes a bench, along BRT corridors riders are sheltered in weatherproof, brightly lit, and architecturally-considered stations.
Entrants ranging from architects to urban planners to designers to university students from around the world submitted fantastic renderings bringing to life exciting new ideas for state-of-the-art BRT stations designed to create a sense of civic pride and deliver a world-class transit experience.
A panel made up of transportation, design, and civic leaders selected the winning entries. The entrants also shared their submissions on social media in a public voting process, greatly expanding the reach of the competition and generating helpful engagement around what BRT station features matter to the public. Winners were announced at the StreetTalks: Cities on the Move event, with a reception and panel discussion hosted by the LivableStreets Alliance.
View Submissions and Winners
Project Title: Urban Arbor [3rd Place Winner]
Team Members: Kyle Coburn, Elle Gerdeman
Project Title: Urban Lens
Firm Name: Atelier et Alia
Team Members: Christina Marsh, Kristen Giannatasio
Project Title: The Archway
Firm Name: Meow Wow Architects
Team Members: Edbert Cheng and Ivory Wang
Project Title: Billow [1st Place Winner]
Firm name: Utile
Team members Ingrid Bengtson (lead designer), Emily Kruse, Charlotte Lipschitz, Tim Love (team leader), Gautam Palav, Margaret Rew, Jessica Robertson, Joshua Simoneau
Project Title: BostonBRT Station Design Competition
Firm name: Kamlesh Mistry
Team member name(s): Kamlesh Mistry, Prasenjit Biswas, Ninad Naik, Anita Uttarkar
Project Title: RootBRT [2nd Place Winner]
Firm Names: NBBJ, Kittelson Associates
Team Member Names:Chris Herlich, Pablo Licari, Jim Gresalfi, Maxwell Nie, Alan Mountjoy, Sarah Markovitz, Conor Semler, Ellen Moshier
Project Title: Make [Your Neighborhood] Closer
Firm Name: Idealab Architecture and Design
Team Member: Daniel Riggs
Project Title: The Boston BRT
Team Member Name: Royce Perez
Project Title: Federal Shed
Team member Randy Plemel
Project Title: Blue Hill Avenue BRT
Team Members: Ari Ofsevit, Jeremy Garczynski
Project Title: FREEDOM TRAIL
Team Name: Populous
Team Members: Derrick Choi, Jaebong Jeon
Project Title: BRT-ONE
Team members: Edward Lamson, Alifa Putri, Armando Sullivan, Mayu Takeda, and Anne Xiangyu Chen
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