Arching rooftop walkway tops Aedas’ West Kowloon Station in Hong Kong

The Aedas-designed train station connecting Hong Kong to Beijing has a curving roof planted with trees that visitors can climb for views out over the skyline. West Kowloon Station is the terminus of the 88-mile-long Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed rail service (XRL), which connects to the National network all the way to Beijing, a 15,500 mile journey away. Global architecture practice Aedas designed the station in the West Kowloon Cultural District for the MTR Company. Trees, shrubs, and other gr