Article source: UNStudio

Following the completion of cable car designs for the cities of Gothenburg and Amsterdam, UNStudio was recently selected as the winner in the competition for the first ever cross border cable car, which will carry passengers across the Amur River to connect Russia and China.

Following a vision round involving 12 practices in the invited competition managed by Strelka KB, UNStudio and Coop Himmelb(l)au were selected to submit design proposals for the Blagoveshchensk Terminal Station in Russia for the second phase. Strelka KB were also responsible for the economic and functional model of the Cable Car Terminal.

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• Architects: UNStudio
• Project: Blagoveshchensk Cable Car Terminal
• Location: Blagoveshchensk, Russia
  
• UNStudio: Ben van Berkel with Arjan Dingsté and Juergen Heinzel, Wael Batal, Daniel Cely, Milou van Min, Evan Shaner, Dario Castellari
• Advisors: Competition Management, formulation economic and functional model – Strelka KB
• Visualisations: PYXID

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