Planes, Trains, and Architecture: Transportation's Most Stunning Structures

Between Facebook, Twitter, online streaming, and even 2-Day Shipping, it’s easy to feel like all earthly boundaries and impediments—time, space, geographic features, inconvenience—have been finally transgressed. But your morning commute would very quickly tear you away from any such delusions. Despite all our finger-swiping savvy and invisible cloud infrastructures, we have yet to achieve similar powers of apparition/disapparition that would instantly propel our bodies from place to place. Meaning, there’s still very much a need for planes, trains, and automobiles—and all the architecture that corresponds to each.

These are the finalist from the A+ “Transportation” typology. We’re not only talking airports and bus/train stations here, but also parking structures, port facilities, and boat piers, too. So grab your passport and take advantage of one of these transpiration hubs. Spot a favorite? Make sure to vote for it over at the A+ Public Voting site.

AIRPORTS

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Bodrum International Airport
?Tabanlioglu Architects?
Bodrum, Turkey

Carrasco International Airport
Rafael Vinoly Architects
?Montevideo, Uruguay

San Francisco International Airport Transit 2
?Gensler?
San Francisco, California

BUS & TRAIN STATIONS

Bus station Osijek
?Rechner Architects?
Osijek, Croatia

Rest stops?
J. Mayer H. Architects?
Gori, Georgia

The Yardmasters Building
McBride Charles Ryan?
Melbourne, Australia

PARKING STRUCTURES

Bicycle station ICE Bahnhof Erfurt?
Osterwold°Schmidt EXPANDER?
Erfurt, Germany

Chesapeake Car Park One?
Elliott + Associates?
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Enlighten your light?
labers12?
Bolzano, Italy

UC Davis Medical Center Parking Structure III?
Dreyfuss & Blackford?
Sacramento, California

UNI Multimodal Transportation Facility
Substance Architecture
Cedar Falls, Iowa

PORT FACILITIES & BOAT PIERS

Development of Cruise Terminal Extension Project
?Martín Lejarraga arquitecto?
Cartagena, Spain

Guertin Boatport?
5468796 Architecture?
Storm Bay, Canada

Marine Company 01
?CR Studio Architects, PC?
New York

Pavillon Alpenquai
Cometti Truffer Architects?
Zug, Switzerland