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A design team lead by the Los Angeles office of HOK and Parsons Brinckerhoff has been selected by local governmental officials to design the first phase of a new transit hub in Southern California that will include restaurant and retail facilities.
The winning HOK/Parsons Brinckerhoff design is a 66,000-square-foot structure featuring a 180-foot archway. The hub -- officially known as the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) -- will link commuter and regional rail service, as well as intercity bus, taxi and local transit. Future phases will expand the center to accommodate California high-speed rail to destinations such as San Francisco and Sacramento and serve as the terminus for the super-speed train between Las Vegas and Southern California.
"The design for ARTIC was inspired by grand, open rail stations like Grand Central in New York, and from the historic, monumental hangars in nearby Tustin which housed Navy blimps," said Ernest Cirangle, HOK's architecture design director for the project. "We wanted to design ARTIC as a breathtaking structure which would be instantly recognizable throughout the region."
Additional partners on the HOK/Parsons Brinckerhoff ARTIC team include Thornton Tomasetti, structural engineering; Buro Happold, mechanical and electrical engineering; and SWA Group, public space design and landscape architecture. Specialty consultants include Horton Lees Brogden, lighting design; Selbert Perkins Design, wayfinding, signage and graphics; and CommArts Design, retail design.