Beijing South Railway Station occupies a site in southern Beijing, rebuilt in its current form and reopened on 1 August 2008, shortly before that year's Beijing Olympics, after the demolition of an older station on the same site. Designed by the British architecture firm Farrells working with the Tianjin Architecture Design Institute, the building takes an elliptical form intended to evoke a spreading ray or trilobite, its roof punctured by rows of oval skylights that flood the concourse below with natural light. Covering roughly 320,000 square meters, larger in floor area than the Beijing National Stadium built for the same Olympics, it ranks among the largest railway stations in Asia. The station serves as the Beijing terminus for the high-speed Beijing to Tianjin intercity railway and the Beijing to Shanghai high-speed line, trains capable of running at up to 350 kilometers per hour.
Facts
Building Type LocationFengtai District, Beijing, China 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
Uses Element
Source Beijing South railway station, Wikipedia
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: China, located there.
Sources
1. Beijing South railway station, Wikipedia
Lead paragraph
a large railway station in Fengtai District, Beijing
Infobox, Address
Yongdingmen Chezhan Lu, Fengtai District, Beijing, China
History section
opened on 1 August 2008
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
Beijing South Railway Station occupies a site in southern Beijing, rebuilt in its current form and reopened on 1 August 2008, shortly before that year's Beijing Olympics, after the demolition of an older station on the same site. Designed by the British architecture firm Farrells working with the Tianjin Architecture Design Institute, the building takes an elliptical form intended to evoke a spreading ray or trilobite, its roof punctured by rows of oval skylights that flood the concourse below with natural light. Covering roughly 320,000 square meters, larger in floor area than the Beijing National Stadium built for the same Olympics, it ranks among the largest railway stations in Asia. The station serves as the Beijing terminus for the high-speed Beijing to Tianjin intercity railway and the Beijing to Shanghai high-speed line, trains capable of running at up to 350 kilometers per hour.
Uses Element: Steel, Wikipedia article
It was built from more than 60,000 tons of steel and 490,000 cubic metres (17,304,000 cu ft) of concrete by 4,000 workers in less than three years.
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