Maritime火车站曾是欧洲最大的货运火车站，位于布鲁塞尔Tour & Taxis工业区中。建筑师将这里改造成为了一座室内城市，包含办公购物等不同功能，并且提供了大量的公共空间供人们休闲使用。新的Maritime火车站是一片位于钢铁屋顶之下的城区，是一座永远不会下雨的城市。 

Gare Maritime, once Europe’s largest railway station for goods on the Tour & Taxis site in Brussels, has been transformed into a covered city with a mixed program of working and shopping and plenty of public space to relax. Under impressive steel roofs Neutelings Riedijk Architects designed the new Gare Maritime as a city district; ‘a city where it never rains’.

▼项目概览，overall view of the project ©Neutelings Riedijk Architects, photographer: Filip Dujardin

老火车站建造于20世纪，由三个大厅和四个小厅组成。在原有边廊的屋顶下，建筑师增加了12栋新建筑，以容纳新的功能。这些建筑之间形成了街道、花园和广场，其结构与周边现存的城市肌理自然统一，仿佛一座真正的城市。

The old station from the beginning of the 20th century consists of three larger and four smaller halls. Under the existing roofs of the side aisles, twelve new pavilions have been added to accommodate the new program. They create a new structure of boulevards and street, gardens and squares, that follows the existing urban context and the building structure in a natural way, like a true city.

▼保留屋顶下宽敞的步行道，spacious walking street under the existing roof ©Neutelings Riedijk Architects, photographer: Filip Dujardin

▼如城市一般的空间，space like a city ©Neutelings Riedijk Architects, photographer: Sarah Blee 

建筑的中心区域向公众开放。这里环境宜人，随着季节的变化而变化。建筑师从Ramblas大道汲取灵感，在活动空间两侧各设置了一条林荫步道。步道宽16米，种有一百棵大树，并且为内花园提供了足够的空间。项目中总共有10个花园，分为4个主题，分别是林地花园，鲜花花园，青草花园和芳香花园。布鲁塞尔视觉艺术家Henri Jacobs则为广场设计了8种马赛克。

The central space in the heart of the building has been kept open for public events. It has a pleasant climate which follows the changing of the seasons. Inspired by the ‘Ramblas’, on both sides of the event space a green walking boulevard is created. The 16 meters wide pedestrian routes give enough room for spacious inner gardens, with a hundred large trees. Gare Maritime counts a total of ten gardens based on four themes: the woodland garden, the flower garden, the grass garden and the fragrance garden. For the squares, Brussels visual artist Henri Jacobs designed eight mosaics.

▼步行道中的花园，gardens on the walking street ©Neutelings Riedijk Architects, photographer: Filip Dujardin